Word: math
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...wasn’t. Or the e-mail to your Dean complaining about lack of toilet paper, dated March 20th 3:30 A.M when you realized your lazy roommates stole your last roll. Or the nasty e-mail you sent to your ex/crush/random kid in your math class for, err, looking at you funny. Or any e-mail sent from 2-4:30 A.M (hint: the receiver can see when you sent it). Not that we have sent any/all of these. We swear. Really...
What’s even better is that now you can prevent yourself from ever sending late night e-mails. By activating “mail goggles” gmail will put you through a short math quiz to see if you are really in a state to send e-mail (note: automatically activates late night on weekends). This is the GREATEST invention since refrigerator locks...
...February, and the Classics department—also citing a desire to remove its course of study from an emphasis on graduate-level rigor—voted to approve wide-ranging changes early this month. Astronomy faculty cited concerns that current requirements forced students to take multiple years of math and physics before gaining access to higher level concentration courses within the department.“Students would go off and start running into exciting topics in physics and [earth and planetary sciences] and math and decide to concentrate in one of those other fields instead,” said...
...that the Geithner plan - which calls for Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to finance the bulk of up to $1 trillion in toxic-asset purchases by private investors - is a great deal for the investors and a big risk for the taxpayers. The math calls for the government to take on most of the downside risk while evenly sharing the rewards with hedge funds, money managers and other buyers. In the loan-buying program, private investors would put up 7% of the capital for a shot at close to 50% of the gains. The ratio...
...help you sit still and pay attention seems counterintuitive at first. But that surprising fact lies at the heart of Rapport's work: stimulants augment your working, or short-term, memory, where information is stored temporarily and used to carry out deliberate tasks like, say, solving a challenging math problem. ADHD kids have a hard time with working memory because they lack adequate cortical arousal, and Rapport believes that their squirms and fidgets help stimulate that arousal...