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Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land – YouTube
Editor’s Note: Finding some of the old Disney teaching science and math videoes, Professor and more… Enjoy!
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Opinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post
Opinion Megan McArdle The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math. November 23, 2025, 5 min Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and…
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Opinion | How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a Supporter – The New York Times
Opinion, Guest Essay What I Got Wrong About D.E.I. Sept. 5, 2025, Listen to this article · 5:32 min By Eugenia Cheng Dr. Cheng is the scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a woman in the male-dominated field of mathematics, I once opposed targeted efforts to help women…
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Did My Father’s World Die with Him? Grieving the Incalculable Costs of “STEM.” – The Scholarly Kitchen
Source: “This isn’t just (only) a historian special pleading for the humanities; it’s in the originating legislation for the NEH that employs the same language of national purpose and service as the NSF’s:This isn’t just (only) a historian special pleading for the humanities; it’s in the originating legislation for the NEH that employs the same language of…
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Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
Naomi Livesay worked on computations that formed the mathematical basis for implosion simulations. Despite her crucial role on the project, she is rarely mentioned as more than a footnote—until now By Katie Hafner, The Lost Women of Science Initiative on August 3, 2023 Listen to the podcast: https://beta.prx.org/stories/484826 Nic Lewis: She was walking past where Oppenheimer was…
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How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality
The ‘music of the spheres’ was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe By Tom Siegfried, Contributing Correspondent, May 9, 2023 at 7:00 am If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the…
