overheard in providence

Yesterday I rambled on about Facebook in lieu of discussing a New York Times article explaining why women and men must have the exact same average number of heterosexual partners, despite what survey’s reveal. Unfortunately the article fails to acknowledge the difference between a medians and averages, nor does it offer any real explanation for [...]

Any one who knows me knows I’ve spent most of my life doing two things, watching television and doing math. As such, I was already well aware that actress Danica McKellar (i.e. Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years) was a published mathematician. Today I learned that she has also written a middle school math textbook [...]