Sometimes, particularly near the holidays, I have a craving for the past. Not all of it, mind you, just the past that we so conveniently see in our mind’s eye through a sepia lens with a low light and a soft falling snow. We are all waxing poetic with or without an affinity for the […]
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A couple of weeks ago I reminded you that patterns allow us to predict outcomes in the world around us. Whether the outcome is as simple as the total cost of buying multiple items at a store or as complicated as calculating the height that a ball reached when thrown, we can use mathematical models
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The number 3, the sum of 4 and 2, the product of 7 and 8. These are facts. Facts that we discussed in class this past week. All three of my live classes touched on facts, even as we tried to look beyond the facts to the truth. For example, three is a number. It
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Welcome. Welcome back to another school year. I wanted to say a year of learning, but that would be narrow focused – as if the learning that you do is contained in the months from September to May. A ridiculous notion I admit. Instead I welcome you to the continuation of your adventurous journey toward
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Reading a biography can be one of the best sanctifying tools that we didn’t know we had. I found myself receiving a copy of an autobiography of a musician that I have been a fan of since, as my kids would say, “the 1900s”. I am definitely a music snob, but only in the most
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