July 14, 2008

1,2,3,4

How much do I love Feist? From the first song I heard of hers (Mushaboom) to the myriad others that followed, I was drawn to her haunting voice and her upbeat beat down sound.
And then, then, she comes out with this:

which is a take on this:

which is [...]

July 14, 2008

The Supreme Court, Linear and Exponential Growth, and Racial Segregation

I just started reading Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court – and I came to an interesting case which could turn into a good problem dealing with exponential math. 
A paraphrasing of the case
The case, originating in 1980, was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and joined by the NAACP against [...]