from The Institute for Figuring’s interview with Robert Lang, “a pioneer in the emerging field of computational origami, a branch of mathematics that explores the formal properties and potentialities of folded paper.”
[Margaret Wertheim]: One area in which I gather technical folding is proving useful is one of the major problems in biology. We know that [...]
Archive for May, 2008
how i’d introduce a geometry or physics course
May 31, 2008
this afternoon
May 28, 2008
Instructional technologies are best implemented only after weeks, even months, of banging around between learning goals and available tools. Some of these technologies will have the potential to help meet some outcomes, but none will do everything, and none are machines to approximate all of the work of the instructor’s mind and experience. It’s a [...]
this morning
May 28, 2008
My seven-mile run took a little more effort than what’s usually necessary. Some sort of cloud of anxiety (our MacBook hard drive bonked last night), coupled with a first-in-a-long-while trail run on Monday meant tired legs, an anxious belly, and too shallow breathing. The playlist I’ve been running lately worked only so well; I kept [...]
