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James Howard

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    Teaching Mathematics Online Call for Proposals

    July 31, 2017 7:38 AM James Howard

    I am happy to announce that John F. Beyers, of the University of Maryland University College, will be editing a new book called Teaching and

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  • Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis is Out Now!

    June 13, 2017 8:48 AM James Howard

    My new book Computational Methods for Numerical Analysis with R came out today from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. This book is a long-standing project of

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  • The Bumblebees are Back, and They’re Bad!

    May 11, 2017 8:51 PM James Howard

    The virtual bumblebees are now available for download under an MIT license. The bees were kinda/sorta always available, but I have clarified the licensing. To

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  • Slides from NerdNite Baltimore 8

    April 22, 2017 8:35 PM James Howard

    I’ve posted the slides from my talk at NerdNite. Unfortunately, there’s no video or audio.

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  • Watch my talk at the 2016 Mars Society Convention

    October 30, 2016 10:05 PM James Howard

    I haven’t been posting much lately, because I have been super busy with just about everything. But, the Mars Society has posted videos from the

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A Note on the Outer Space Treaty

August 18, 2017 7:07 AM James Howard

The Outer Space Treaty was adopted in 1967 to establish a baseline

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Notes on Solid Waste Reduction

August 16, 2017 7:03 AM James Howard

The United States has used a variety of methods to reduce solid

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The Effects of Rising Temperatures

August 11, 2017 7:35 AM James Howard

As climate change progresses, one of the most obvious effects will be

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Syllabus for Introduction to Statistics

August 8, 2017 9:59 PM James Howard

I am teaching statistics this fall. I have taught statistics before, but

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I Thought the Generals Were Due!

August 5, 2017 6:37 AM James Howard

My friend follows up on yesterday’s post with this question: I have

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