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Jan 18, 2017
Last night, and tonight, Howard County Council is debating CB-9, a bill to prohibit discrimination based on citizenship status in County affairs. Here's my testimony: Good evening, Chairman Weinstein and members of…
Jan 7, 2017
So I am in a meeting recently, and someone says he needs a mathematician. A second person points at me and says, "He's not just a mathematician. He's a mathematician, a different…
Jan 5, 2017
I am in Atlanta right now and tomorrow morning I am giving a talk on the SMBC cartoon, "An Ethical Trilemma": ::embed{href="http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4132"} Despite the punchline, "So far, no ethicists are impressed with…
Jan 4, 2017
The New York Times has an exposé of the predatory academic conferences market and swings through the predatory academic journals market. You can read the full article here, and it is well…
Dec 15, 2016
I found a really neat demonstration of how blockchain) works. The video, created by Anders Brownworth, is on YouTube: ::youtube{video=" 160oMzblY8"} It provides a walkthrough that takes us from cryptographic hashing, to…
Dec 14, 2016
The New York Times has a magnificent story on the inequities of the pretrial diversion systems in use around the country. Can we use this to estimate a defendant's willingness to pay…
Dec 13, 2016
Last night, Nina spent some time working on a holiday dress for Ducky. There will be another post about this next week, but Nina hit me with a question, How is this…
Dec 5, 2016
Hey everyone, I am pleased to announce that Bill Woodcock and I are launching our current affairs Internet show, Do It Live! this Sunday at 7pm, EST. This has been in the…
Dec 3, 2016
As promised, I've posted the syllabus for Foundations of Research Methods in Administration. This course is a generic research methods course, though it is set in the MSA context. As a result,…
Nov 28, 2016
This spring, I will be teaching something a bit different. I will still be teaching mathematics online for UMUC, but I will also be teaching MSA 600 -- Foundations of Research Methods…
Oct 30, 2016
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 19th Mars Society Convention, including my talk…