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A Case of Quenching Enthusiasm
July 20th, 2021In 1672, a brilliant young lawyer named Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was on assignment in Paris. He'd always been interested in mathematics - self-taught in geometry - and became fascinated with the inte...
The Politics of Knowledge: When Loyalty Minimizes Learning
June 18th, 2019The Politics of Knowledge: When Loyalty Minimizes Learning is available from Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield. "Whether or not the the U.S. is in decline can be debated, but ther...
Circumference of the earth from a 13′ pole
June 14th, 2019How might we figure the circumference of the earth with just a 4 meter pole? First it helps to know that the sun will be directly overhead Town A at 12:00 noon on June 22, the summer solstice, when th...
