Mama PhD

Anyone who has taken geometry is probably familiar with the concept of “similarity”, in which two shapes share the same...

The other day a friend of mine asked if we had an extra TV kicking around that we could do...

A commenter on my post from a few weeks ago asked for the recipe for the beet cake that actually...

Jerald Walker has a funny article in this week’s Chronicle about being the subject of a wardrobe intervention by a...

I once had someone tell me a story of being on an airplane seated next to someone who was writing...

After flying in from Chicago to visit my children recently, I arrived in time to watch them perform in the...

In a recent New York Times Magazine article, Peggy Orenstein discusses advertisers’ discovery of “the sales potential in female pride.”She...

I recently taught a class in “linear programming”, in which a (linear) objective function is maximized subject to several constraints...