This blog entry is not boring! I feel the need to announce that right up front, because in my previous blog entry, I promised to write about statistical sampling, and that’s what I’m doing here. Despite what you might think about ...READ»
The GMAT or Graduate Management Admission Test is a basic deciding factor for admission acceptance to all Business Schools and schools of management. Designed to try the various skill sets like principal Mathematics, use of English ...READ»
Are you the type that will do what it takes to get the income that you
and your family alwayed wanted, even if that mines going to college for
2+years just to get that income. Well if that so, then I listed my top
5 highest paying ...READ»
We're zealots about the basics. By broadening the traditional concept of the basics (reading, writing and arithmetic) to include study, communication, research and reasoning skills, we give our students the essential building blocks ...READ»
According to a new survey on global innovation conducted by Newsweek and Intel, the United States is suffering from a serious self-esteem problem. The online questionnaire, conducted between Sept. 28 and Oct. 13 of this year, polled ...READ»
Get your Beatles downloads from BlueBeat.com while they're hot--as in stolen, according to a federal copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the site and its owner by EMI records, which distributes the Beatles music, in Los ...READ»
Practical Math for Business Majors
As part of students' initial study of mathematics in the Upper School, a special
section in Practical Math is included on every student's program. Practical
Math primarily addresses personal ...READ»
Literacy gets enormous attention in the Delphi Program. Highly literate people have the keys to a broad and penetrating understanding of concepts and cultures. The Delphi approach to literacy consists of building a step-by-step pathway to full comprehension. READ»
The meaning of the word semantics in broader society involves such a variety of contextual intent that it can obscure or misrepresent the underlying science and technology, which can then damage the integrity of the term and slow the adoption process of essential innovation. READ»
The theory, architecture, and applications of signal processing will be the primary focus of the 17th European Signal Processing Conference. While we don’t understand exactly what all that entails, we do know some of the brightest ...READ»
Don’t know your 3.14159 from your 3.1416? Not to worry, for today is Pi Approximation Day, a celebration of the irrational number and a tribute to those who prefer the approximation 22/7. If that’s you, you’re in good company; ...READ»
Jim Stewart poured $24 million--which he earned writing calculus textbooks (?!)--into building his dream home. It curves at nearly every point, and is nestled on a hill outside Toronto. But that's not what makes the house ...READ»
The smell of chalk may bring back fond (or not-so-fond) memories of doing math problems in front of the class, but many children in developing nations only have access to small, erasable black slate tablets for all of their ...READ»
"To survive in this age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing to earn a living and ask themselves three questions:" From Daniel H. Pink, author A Whole New MindREAD»
On the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth his theories published as On the Origin of Species are still relevant. Several experts have already chimed in, but here are some additional voices on evolution and Darwin.
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In Sunday's NY Times Magazine, Joe Nocera wrote about Value at Risk (VaR) and the role it might have played in the current financial crisis. Was that tool an aid to dealing with the situations facing its users or did it contribute ...READ»
The Tribot may look a little like something you'd find barring traffic at a construction site, but actually it's a sophisticated robot designed to gather data for climate and environmental research from difficult-to-reach ...READ»
Windows 7 is in the news again. It was a month ago that I first had the question on why Windows is still in it's infancy years whereas Mac OS has entered the teenage period quite some time ago. My arithmetic was - and I posed the ...READ»
(Guest blogged by Daniel Castro)
A new study published last Friday in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society titled “Cross-Cultural Analysis of Students with Exceptional Talent in Mathematical Problem Solving” is ...READ»
This car is like something out of a sci-fi flick: a BMW prototype with a flexible textile skin that reflects the carmaker's new design philosophy. READ»
It’s the scourge of the new generation of computer-users. The ubiquity of electronic communications is so pervasive that sometimes you have access to the world when your brain has lost access to your fingers. Under those ...READ»
