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- Water Waves with Angled Crests: Preprint Available
- Links: Collapsing NYC Skyscraper, NCAA Bagmen, Yahoo, Health Insurance, Etc.
- Links: Crowds and the Recession, Snowden, Win $1 Million with Circuits, Social Choice Theory, and More
- Quick Update on My Freshman Writing Course
- Links: The Future of the Left, Tech Intellectuals, Self-Serve Gas Stations, Etc
- Links: Pynchon, Marissa Mayer, Larry Summers, Finance, Blogging
- Wieseltier on Scientism
- An Update on My Math & Linguistics Freshman Writing Course
- Links: Economics, Breaking Bad, the Moon, Entrepreneurship, Albert Murray, Etc.
- Links: Misapplications of math, journalism, AIDS, EB White, Pricing, Gifted Students
- Links: On Aaron Swartz, Nate Silver, Detroit, Grace in Teaching, A New Cancer Technology, Etc
- On Education Studies and the Problem of High Dimensions: A Plea for Wisdom and Judgment
- A Suggestion for The Economist
- Links: SWAT Teams, Nostalgia, Lemonade Stands, Why Ice Cream Sounds Fat, Gluten Intolerance, Etc.
- The Potsdam Miracle: Lessons in Revolutionizing Undergraduate Mathematics
- Links: The Math of Genealogy, Manic Pixie Dream Girls, Techno-Utopianism, Eric Holder, Pope Francis, etc
- Math, Writing, and the World: The Freshman Writing Course I’m Teaching in the Fall
- Links: NSA, New Nobels, Marijuana Legalization, Corporations and the First Amendment, Roger Ebert, etc
- Reality Bites as the Source for Infinite Jest?
- Links: Probability and DNA Testing, 16th Century Executioners, Walmart as a Bank, Etc.
- A Story about Bertrand Russell’s Plane Crash
- Links: Number Theory, Mel Brooks, Garden Hermits, Gay Marriage, Passwords, etc
- Remember Learned Hand Before Criticizing Apple’s Tax Practices
- Interesting Articles: Syria, Free Speech and Privacy Online, Dogs, Fossil Fuels, How to Win at Poker, and More
- A Sonnet for Morgenbesser: Dear Astrophil, Love Stella
- Interesting Articles: Humanities Make Money, The Purchase of Instagram, Kierkegaard, and More
- Larry Summers and Glenn Hubbard Shooting Hoops
- Interesting Articles: The Dickens/Dostoevsky Hoax, the Mars Rover, Jason Collins, Janet Malcolm, Einstein’s Hoagies
- John McPhee and the Irregular Restrictive Which
- The Irrationality of Committees and Courts: A Voting Paradox
- Interesting Articles, Links, Etc.
- Allusion and Undertones in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Interesting Links
- Letters to the Living Dead