Corey’s Blather Blog

I've missed a lot of early meetings in my career.

http://www.mylifeinacube.com/post/49518430/sometimes-i-need-a-little-reminder

Or not.

http://bigpicture.posterous.com/books-banned-by-mayor-now-veep

I don't see a link but I am checking Scopes. If this list is really
what she asked to have removed she isn't just a fundamentalist idiot,
she's certifiably insane.

"Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff"!!??

You have GOT to be kidding me.

Edit: It's a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp

Edit2: Big Picture deleted their post so this link won't work anymore. Just update it man!!

http://www.physorg.com/news139840901.html

Interesting idea. It may not be a matter of getting girls interested
early. It may be more a matter of helping them over the 'hump' when
they are inclined to give up.

I personally did not hit the math 'hump' until well into college when
I was in my 30's. I'm just now getting past it after several years of
heavy grind, grind, grind in physics. I still have to work very hard
on every problem, but I am more at peace with that.

The 'hump' was really a matter of realizing it wasn't going to be easy
anymore, and just doing what I had to do.

Going back to the article, reading between the lines, it seems to me
like maybe boys get just a tiny nudge to keep going because they're
expected to be able to do it. But in my experience a large number of
boys don't have the stamina either by the time they get to college. In
fact, my female classmates (especially the freshmen) are far better
disciplined and thus more successful in math. Of course, they're part
of the larger cohort that is taking math "because they have to" as
part of some math-light degree. Any math majors haven't hit the 'hump'
yet.

My hope with my daughters, when they come, is to prepare them for the
'hump', make them feel equally capable, fill their lives with
complexity so math doesn't seem so bad, and try to give them some fire
in their belly to "do it anyway".

Any other suggestions?

Just so you can suffer a bit with me, this page covers most of what I
had to figure out for my electronics class over the weekend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_resistive_circuits

I also had another large "review" assignment for Quantum Mechanics,
which is partially covered on these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrodinger_equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Momentum#Momentum_in_relativistic_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell-Boltzmann_Distribution

Yes… I was trying to remind myself how ALL that stuff on ALL those
pages worked to get the long-weekend's homework done. This is just
REVIEW. Nothing new has been covered yet.

I figure it added up to about 50 hours of work since Friday. I did get
it all "done" and handed in today on time. But I had to skip out of
one lecture and I am convinced I got most of the electronics wrong
anyway.

Nice huh?

Ima go drop dead from exhaustion now. FIRST WEEK of school! Gah!