Category: Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings

Out of all the thousands of pages of all of the textbooks you ever read in your life, how many sentences can you remember? One that has remained with me for over twenty years was in the required book for my inferential statistics course, “If something exists, it must exist in some quantity and that

Ten years of graduate school, two masters degrees, one doctorate and there are four statements that still stand out decades later. Dr. Irv Balow, our research methods professor had just been asked by a  frustrated student, “It seems like every time we ask you a question, the answer is always, ‘The data don’t support that

In the middle of writing a final project report from my old company, I  read an interesting article by Walter Kirn on multi-tasking. According to the author, who cites actual science as evidence, we are all becoming progressively dumber due to doing two or three things at once. While talking on the cell phone, we

My daughter, Julia, is named after a French mathematician who discovered the Julia group of fractals. When trying to come up with a name, I had tried everything from the Internet to the Magic Eightball. Still, nothing fit. I was out of town on a business trip – this is how I started most sentences

Our first on-line course by the Julia Institute will be offered on January 14. There are so many thousand other details that I would like to add. I would like to do more testing to make sure every little thing works perfectly, that the mp3 files and movie files will work with every computer in

I admit it. I am having a mid-life crisis. Almost to the half a century mark, it is time to decide what is there that is worth spending the remaining half (or less) of my life doing. Making life better That was the vision for the company I co-founded years ago and just left. I