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• Day before Final Exams, 2009

  
  blueollie — Authority: 136
  Students have been coming in for most of the day. I’ll comment on that later; all I will say right now is that part of my job is to help those who are willing to work hard to make the leap from blind mimicry to understanding: there is a REASON that the formulas and the techniques work the way that they do. When ...
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• Cuts Ahead, a Bronx Principal Maps Out What May Have to Go

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  While it is not known how much individual schools will be asked to shave off their budgets, schools like the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics are preparing for the worst.
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• 10 December 09

  
  blueollie — Authority: 136
  Here is an interesting “model” study of speciation: does speciation occur as a result of gradual change or due to a “rare” mutation? New species might arise as a result of single rare events, rather than through the gradual accumulation of many small changes over time, according to a study of thousands of ...
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• TEACHERS at The Sultana School

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 162
  We require suitably qualified candidate for immediate employment to fill the post of:TEACHERS Crèche/Nursery/Primary Class TeacherEnglish LanguageMathematicsArabicIslamic religious StudiesQualificationCandidate must possess B.Ed, B.A (Ed),B.Sc(Ed), NCE.Method of ApplicationInterested applicants should send their ...
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• Mathematics Teacher at Grange Schools

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 162
  Due to the positive growth in student numbers and the development of the school hereby invite applications for the position below:Mathematics Teacher Minimum QualificationB.Ed (Mathematics) B.Sc with PGDE.Minimum & ExperienceA teacher with a minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in an English National ...
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• Bland and cautious: Two posts that say something I meant to say.

  
  bearing blog — Authority: 129
  First, from Darwin , a few weeks ago. [T]here are a good many people who know me in real life who read the blog. More than that, after writing a blog for four-and-a-half years, you get to think of a number of your long-time readers and commenters are friends. The blog becomes like a corner coffee house or bar ...
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• Over 2,300 PS3s Have Been Drafted for Military Duty

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 608
  Photo: SFGate Recently the United States Air Force submitted a formal public request to purchase more than two thousand PlayStation 3 consoles for military use. Many have wondered how the USAF plans to utilize the large number of PlayStation 3 systems as well as what purpose they have over standard computers and ...
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• MangaHigh launches U.S. web site for math-based kids games

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryMangaHigh is launching its U.S. web site that teaches kids math via online video games.The launch comes on the heels of the company’s successful debut of a web site for the United Kingdom. It’s part of a growing attempt to engage kids in normally boring subjects by making the content more ...
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• Exceptional E10 group and M-theory

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 618
  Exceptional groups are undoubtedly important in M-theory. They appear in many contexts and many ways. However, one must go way beyond this general statement in order to understand whether the role of exceptional symmetries in M-theory is purely technical or whether it is linked to the deepest mysteries about ...
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• Take This Paradigm and Shove It

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  Each year, I get invited to Washington DC to serve as a pimp.  A scientific pimp.  I’m expected to join a small legion of volunteers to beg my senators and representatives to spend tax money on a program called the Math and Science Partnerships .  This program is supposed to help improve how math and science ...
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• Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

  
  Chronos — Authority: 115
  From PhysOrg.com : In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals. Full aticle Chronos blog home page Chronos Date/Time Library web site
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• Are holiday and weekend eating patterns affecting obesity rates?

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 573
  The holidays can be challenging for even the most diligent dieters. But are weekends just as detrimental? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., found that weekend eating patterns change significantly. read more
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• Still ticking

  
  State Street — Authority: 123
  While browsing the mathematics section at Border’s the other day, I noticed they had a copy of Russell’s Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy on the shelf.  The book apparently still has some legs.
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• TUDA: The Utterly Depressing Assessment

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  TUDA stands for “The Utterly Depressing Assessment.”  Coverage of yesterday’s math scores for urban school districts has edupundits bending over backwards to say “my scores are worse than your scores.”   Football analogies abound.   Cleveland’s scores “might be the only thing in that city more ...
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• Internal Auditors at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc

  
  Jobs and Vacancies in Nigeria — Authority: 162
  Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc require qualified candidate for the service of the position below:Internal Auditors (Ref: AUDIT 2009)The Job:To plan, execute and report on internal audit reviews of business units, processes and identified areas of risk exposure across the Groups’ businesses nationwide; reports to the ...
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• In the news: Profs. Wolfgang Christian, Tim Chartier

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 439
  Wolfgang Christian (left) in the physics lab with students (from left) Daniel Bernstein, Ruel Neupane, and Ree Lightsey. (Davidson College photo) Davidson College professors Wolfgang Christian and Tim Chartier are in the news this week because of recognition in their fields. Dr. Christian, the college’s Brown ...
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• Financial Mathematics: Introduction, Topics, Examples & Course Outline

  
  Finance Trading Times — Authority: 109
  Continuing further from our previous article Financial Accounting , In this article, we will cover another well known and most sought after topic of Financial Mathematics . Money requires understanding, and that understanding can come only when you know maths quite well. Now the maths required for Finance is not ...
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• Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel

  
  Simon Willison's Weblog — Authority: 620
  Mobius Sliced Linked Bagel . “It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area.”
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• Fibonacci Rings

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 773
  The Fibonacci sequence, named after a 13th Century Italian mathematician, is a sequence of numbers in which every third number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This ring and others like it by Etsy seller Holmes Craft is an homage to that mathematical sequence in that the beads are organized according to the ...
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• Online Professional Development Workshop: Enrichment Problems in Space Science XVII

  
  OSGC Educational Resources Blog — Authority: 125
  John Ensworth at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and the NASA Science Mission Directorate invite you to attend an upcoming online professional development workshop. Topic: Enrichment Problems in Space Science XVIIIn the seventeenth bi-monthly installment of these mission- and inquiry-oriented ...
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