Freedom of Speech

As I dig through journals for interesting tidbits I often find myself far afield from the original topic at hand, which is exactly what happened the other day. I was reading a piece on the influence the color of the box that holds your local traffic signal has on traffic flow – not the color [...]

Education Issues – Teacher Signaling

Confession: as a teacher I have challenges with the different levels of students who cycle through my classroom. I am not unbiased, and yes, I take my students’ performance personally.
But this is as it has been and should be….
Some students are bright, but it’s not just the ability level of the [...]

Stat of the Week – Monkeys and Medals

Lionel Tiger shares the history of monkeys and medal in his latest Op-Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal. He posits that there is a biological need for humans to have games such as the Olympics
Like our primate cousins, competition is in our blood.
Is this just more justification for what my less athletically-inclined friends call [...]

Margaret Thatcher – We Must Win

The newsletter this week includes a favorite item from Mrs. Thatcher:
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
A few weeks ago the Wall Street journal published an opinion piece worth a [...]

Sports Stat of the Week: Old Guns, Young Guns

Sports Stat of the Week
It’s all in the numbers….
Never mind what happened Sunday afternoon . . . I turned off the second display in my office and focused on teaching our Advanced Quant class. The students didn’t have to know the Boys were being destroyed by Future Rapper Favre.

(Pants on the Ground? Really? What the [...]

Numbers for Nerds

If you get excited about numbers, today is a spetacular day.
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It is a rare opportunity to present the date in binary form (that’s not the actual binary date however).
So just how rare is it?
Have you figured out how many times in a century you can represent the date with 1s and 0s without getting your [...]

Mastery – how to know when to get back to basics

What do you call it when a defender “bounces” a puck into his own goal?
Ready?
. . .
Heart Breaking.
Actually I can’t believe I have yet to find the term . . . surely there is a term for this phenomenon given what my beloved Robi had to say about it,
“I hope he doesn’t worry too much [...]

Sports Statistic of the Week: Cowboys versus Giants

Brett Favre is looking royal in purple. Hard to believe he recently crossed into 40. Though they lost to the Cardinals . . .
“I’m anxious to go watch it on the news because I’m pretty sure everybody is going to talk about what Brett Favre did wrong, and not talk about how our defense stood [...]

Nonverbal Influence: Uniform Color

If you knew that the color you were wearing could influence the outcome of a game/deal/date, would you change what you are wearing?
What’s Color got to do with it?
Are TEAL uniforms (San Jose Sharks) killing any chance for a cup?
This week we look at uniform color.
Does it surprise you that teams wearing a black uniform [...]

Mastery – Semper Fi

Happy 234th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!
A big thank you to those who have served and those who will serve. Bob Parsons, the Chief Nutty-Nut at GoDaddy.com creates a rousing tribute to the Marine Corps each year in celebration of the evening at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, November 10, 1775.
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/holiday/usmc2009/default.asp?isc=gdr1162a
The Few, The Proud.
I [...]

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