Wordpress - halshop.wordpress.com - hal's house of pancakes
General Information:
Latest News:
It’s on math teachers to change society’s attitude toward math 14 Jun 2013 | 03:40 am
The two most common responses when I tell people I meet that I’m a math teacher are: People tell me how much they admire and even like math; People tell me how bad they are at math, squirm uncomfortab...
the hunger games; catching fire; mockingjay 28 Mar 2013 | 10:11 pm
Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of novels — the first book made into an amazingly faithful-to-the-book and successful movie — is a nice exploration of post-apocalyptic themes, combined with a young adult per...
the signal and the noise 5 Jan 2013 | 10:42 am
Nate Silver has made a name for himself in recent years, largely as the founder of Five Thirty Eight, a blog that uses statistics to discuss and predict the outcome of elections and other political is...
the art of immersion 20 Dec 2012 | 12:03 am
The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories (by Frank Rose) is an interesting journalistic look at media and its interaction wit...
Six of this Year’s Most Interesting Maps 14 Dec 2012 | 06:00 am
These maps are just too cool to pass up: http://gislounge.com/2012-most-riveting-maps/ I especially love the wind map. Don’t miss it.
freakonomics and super freakonomics 29 May 2012 | 04:53 pm
The subtitle of Freakonomics, “a rogue econnomist explores the hidden side of everything,” reveals the ambitious of authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. The subtitle of the sequel, Super Fr...
pope joan 27 May 2012 | 04:09 am
Donna Woolfork Cross’s fictionalized account of the life of a woman who lives her adult life as a man and becomes pope in the 9th century A. D. is by turns a page-turner and a bit tedious. At its best...
oh, and entitlement 29 Jul 2011 | 12:36 am
Here’s a cartoon that, not only does nothing to refute my argument in the previous post, it also speaks to the entitlement the folks coming out of college appear to have. The not-so-subtle subtext is ...
are college degrees worth less than they used to be? 1 Jul 2011 | 12:44 pm
About a year ago, a friend of mine told me he wondered why he had bothered to get an education. He felt that the job prospects and earning potential he had did not balance against the time and money h...
logicomix 29 Jun 2011 | 10:48 am
I don’t read a lot of graphic novels and I’ve certainly never read one about Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) and the project of putting mathematics on solid philosophical ground. Logicomix (2009) is ex...
