Points of Inflection

The other day I had the pleasure of seeing Michael Nolan's new movie "Interstellar". I had been looking forward to this sinc...

It's just been made public that I will be presenting at @TEDxPSU next March 1st.   The official announcement is on TEDx's Facebook...

Laurie Zoloth H/T to @erikbfoley for alerting me to this news. From the New York Times : "If the bioethicist Laurie Zoloth, the p...

The road goes ever on At the end of April I was admitted for surgery at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.  Over a delicate seven-hour operatio...

Here's a Penn State press release regarding MATH033! UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Back in 2008, presidential candidates Barack Obama...

"Let us now sing the first six verses of the Tedium". That at any rate is how my mutinous younger self parsed the vicar's...

I'm three weeks into David Archer's Coursera course Global Warming: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change . There were sever...