Pride Month Stats: Facts speak louder than fear

Pride Month Stats: Facts speak louder than fear

It’s Flash­card Fri­days at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry!, the pod­cast where num­bers aren’t just facts, they’re frame­works for under­stand­ing our world. It is June, and we are kick­ing off Pride Month.  So let’s get our rain­bow flags and cel­e­brate our loved ones who are part of the LGBTQ com­mu­ni­ty. Though it is offi­cial­ly rec­og­nized in June in the Unit­ed States and

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Math in Your Head: Fast Metric Conversions Without the Math

TRANSCRIPTS Wel­come to Flash­cards Fri­days! Today we are learn­ing how to feel con­ver­sions in your head, no pen, no paper, no cal­cu­la­tor. Just pat­terns, rhythm, and a lit­tle bit of imag­i­na­tion. Because math isn’t just num­bers, it’s about feel­ing the rhythm of math and under­stand­ing how the world around us fits togeth­er. So, imag­ine you’re get­ting ready to go for

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Kate Ertmann on the Math Behind Chaos, Business, and Everyday Thinking

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Gabrielle Bir­chak: And then I, it’s almost like we’ve already been drink­ing and it’s not even noon. Kate Ert­mann: Well, I dun­no about you, but No. Okay. No I haven’t. I’m just drink­ing water. Gabrielle Bir­chak: Wel­come to Math, sci­ence His­to­ry, a pod­cast ded­i­cat­ed to bring­ing the top­ics of math and sci­ence to you through the lens of his­to­ry. It’s

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Abstract Algebra, Swimming and Rummikub

Abstract Algebra, Swimming and Rummikub

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 History of Calculators

The History of Calculators

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

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Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life — Chapter One

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

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