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he rocket scientist decided the most important use of his spare time was to pose Homer as an R6σ specialist.
I was looking at this in my email and wondered why I ever decided to actually have a child with this person. Then, I looked at the books in the background.
That’s why. If you can’t be more mature than your children, you can at least be smarter and more educated.
After watching Black in America: The New Promised Land, about eight black entrepreneurs trying to get traction in Silicon Valley, I read some of the articles on line about it and some of the comments (always a mistake), comments which served up further proof that there should be some sort of IQ requirement to use…
Today, someone asked me, “Is it really true that guy you see on the Internet with all of the question marks on him, that it’s possible to get a government grant for anything?” In a word, no. People come to me all of the time with ideas that not even your own mother would fund….
The most useful function Facebook has served for me is as a time machine. That is, students, friends and acquaintances I had not seen in 20, 30 or 40 years, who are in my memory as small children or teenagers all of a sudden reappear in my life as young adults with spouses and children,…
Once every year, I teach an actual course, not a workshop or professional development, but a class with 20 – 40 students. One where I need to write a syllabus, have lectures, papers to grade, homework and exams. Now, I’m not comparing teaching masters or doctoral students 3- 6 hours a week to my friends…
I’ve decided on my new career after we get 7 Generation Games into the hands of millions of players. I’m going to take some time off and become a travel blogger. I’m not going to be your typical travel blogger though. You won’t be reading posts from me about backpacking because that involves sleeping in…
Last month, I was super-stoked to be listed in Forbes as one of the 40 women to watch over 40. As I’ve written on here several times, I call bullshit on the belief that start-ups must all be run by Mark Zuckerberg clones. The idea that everyone over 30 has outdated skills is based on…
Hi Dr. De Mar,
We wanted to let you know that your blog was selected for our list of the top 50 statistics blogs of 2011. Our goal was to highlight blogs that students and prospective students will find useful and interesting in their exploration of the field.
You can view the entire list at http://www.thebestcolleges.org/best-statistics-blogs/
Congratulations!