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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

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Numeracy and innumeracy:

Song chart meme: for two-two-two geeks in one.

Some screechy monkey or other tagged me on the song chart meme. The idea seems to be to come up with a visual/graphical representation of a song or some lyrical subset of it. In other words, you can get your...

Tradition takes its toll

Impatience is easier to quantify if you're good with numbers.

Doing the math: how plausible is the claim that changing what you eat makes more difference to global warming than changing what you drive?

Will going meatless stave off global warming better than losing the SUV? Or are we comparing apples and Citroëns?

What part of 'course requirement' isn't clear?

On my last post, Kristine commented: My favorite "finals week activity" was defending to two students why they couldn't take the lab exams three weeks after all of their classmates took it, just because they realized now that they never...

The math limerick.

A real nerd can combine love of math and poetry, like so: {(12+144+20+3(4)^0.5)/7}+5(11) = 81 + 0 It's a true equation. And, it's a limerick. Read it out loud and you'll see:...

"Roman numerals? They didn't even try to teach us that in school!"

Sadly, this makes me think more kids should have been watching M&M commercials in December of 1999. As reported by the Gainesville Sun: Proofreaders at the University of Florida appear to have failed the Pepsi challenge. UF has called off...

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