In Search of Humanity

I have migrated the parts of this blog I felt like saving to my new website,  www.colingrove.com . I have, among other things, a new blog th...

Eben Alexander, a neuroscientist out of Harvard, recently wrote a book about his "near-death experience". Unfortunately, Alexande...

In recent decades there have been more and more efforts to introduce computers into math education, with varying levels of success. The Univ...

It occurred to me while reading Kevin Kelly 's What Technology Wants that there are two constant (related) tensions that play a big rol...

It's no secret that many conservatives, or at least their congressional representatives, are at odds with facts on which scientists agre...

(Originally written for Math Graduate Board Newsletter) It's the 27th century, but Robin has chosen to wake up from his memory excisio...

We humans seem to experience time in a very specific way. Our notion of time as linear and oriented (that is, the direction of time matters)...