by DJ | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog
The arrival of a new movie about the last months of Judy Garland’s life started me thinking about my first encounters with her professional work. It was all those “Let’s put on a show” movies with Mickey Rooney. You’d rush to your neighbor’s house after school (they...
by DJ | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog
At Governor’s School, where I taught for several summer, a famous computer scientist from MIT was once a guest speaker. I’m talking a name that was off the charts in his field. Yet, early in his lecture he completely lost his audience of high schoolers, when he...
by DJ | Oct 18, 2019 | Blog
Organ Pipe Cactus National Park is in Arizona. It contains some of the oldest plants in the United States and is one of our globe’s most fragile eco-systems. Home to Saguaro and Pipe Cacti, it also houses at least 22 archeological sites. Its existence is so rare and...
by DJ | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog
Barn Dance – Yee Haw!
by jane | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
Golf and Hurricanes: a Story of Two Sets of Numbers By Penny Smith In an age of truthiness, even numbers lie. Well, one could argue they have always concealed facts (see Mark Twain: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”). Yet the skewed...
by jane | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
By Penny Smith One day there is going to be a summit. And then there’s not. No, wait, wait, after an exchange of biting comments, delayed responses and letters (one 8½x11 size and one, judging from the envelope, bigly), there will be a summit. So, cue that Nobel Prize...
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