Discover the chemistry of flavor, the history of spices, and the math behind the perfect pumpkin spice latte. Grab your favorite pumpkin spice treat, get cozy, and join me on this flavorful exploration!
Today, I share with you my own ghost story when I visited Luxor, Pennsylvania! Was it what I thought I saw? Was it real? Or was it science playing tricks on me? Because science can often debunk what we think we see!
My last post was about the life of Évariste Galois and his contributions to abstract algebra. Between that podcast and my recent addiction to Rummikub, this thought process then led me, or distracted me, to thinking about number sets and groups. These mathematicians have written about groups, then about swimming, and the current Olympic trials for swimming, which then conveniently led me back to abstract algebra, which was the topic of my last post on Evariste Galois. My brain went full circle!
The year was 1983 and I was taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the SAT! It was springtime in Denver, Colorado, which meant it was snowing, as it usually does until about June. I was probably dressed in sweatpants and leg warmers because, you know, the 80s. I remember looking forward to the SAT test because I had been studying hard
I have good hope that there is something after death. This is a quote by Plato that I chose to use for the first chapter of my recently published book, Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life. This quote is so profound to me because her legacy continued to live on after Hypatia’s death. Some were negative, some were propaganda, and
The story of her life is an intriguing one! She was a mathematician, an astronomer, a philosopher, and a political advisor, yet she was brutally murdered by church monks. For thousands of years, her death overshadowed her accomplishments. But, eventually, the truth of her life finally surfaced in the history books. Damascius wrote that Theon raised Hypatia with dikaeosyne (justice) and
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