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• Grading on a Curve
• Solving Rubik's Cube (Extra Instructions -> Rubiks Cube)
• Marco Tempest the Techno Illusionist
• Global Gender Gap Report
• Fantasy Football and Math
• Do we really need more practical examples in math class?
• Ratio of CEO to worker pay for various countries compared
• 7 Habits of Highly Successful Math Students
• Triple Header: The Physics of BaseballMoneyball the Movie Moneyball Theory
• How science can lead the way
• The wrong way to communicate with customers: Netflix
• Higher taxes for millionaires, boo hoo
• Laptop batteries, hints and tips
• Khan Academy, free math videos and more
• Want your paper graded by a robot?
• Math and Art, Cool Math Sculptures
• Cell phone on hip may cause bone loss
• Fire the MBA's and let engineers run the show
• Outsourced call centers are outsourced to a computer (we don't have no jobs for no people no more)
• TiVo and DVRs eat up $3 billion dollars in electricity per year
• Creative Summer Festival in Thousand Oaks?
• We need more engineers and scientists
• Want to reduce the deficit?, let's fund government like we did in the good ole days
• Hiking the Backbone Trail
• Details of a Scramjet
• Math Touch for the iPhone and iPad
• Think you can balance the budget in California? Give it a try!
• KCLU News Article on Our Local Robotics Program
• If you want to understand the universe, study your math
• Eliminate Debt and Keep Low Taxes?
• Wealthy and Taxes
• University of California's Statement Regarding Competencies in Mathematics (check out page 7 regarding, "Essential areas of focus for all entering college students")
• Symphony of Science
• Fun math videos
• CareerCast's 10 Best Jobs of 2011 (spoiler: the top ones are very mathy)
• Nearly 1 in 4 High School students fails ASVAB for math.Want to try it yourself?: ASVAB Practice Tests
• We Feel Fine
• The History of Mathematics BBC Series (part 1 of many)
• The Joy of Stats
• Physics based math applets
• Grade Inflation at Colleges
• Domino Clock
• Many Eyes Data Vizualization
• Data Visualization
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell, A Tale of Statistics
• The Cape Advises, "Study your math."
• An Education Still Pays
• Electric shocks to the brain improve math skills (don't try this at home)
• A New Paradigm for Education?
• A friend wrote this article for Fast Company
• Income Inequality, Too Big To Ignore
• Shift Happens
• Homework: Lecture, Classroom: Practice
• The Math of Khan
• Take a nap at work
• Math Trek: A Column about Math
• By the numbers: blue states pay, red states receive
• High speed robotic hand
• A young, female, engineering genius
• Facts about twins
• Hypersonic flight (6 times the speed of sound) and scramjets
• Measuring the oil spill using outside the box thinking
• See our universe
• The Galaxy Song
• Modeling sunlight and shadow on your home
• Fun new toy (Just bought this at Target and it rocks, literally. I plugged an external hard drive with MP3s on it into this box, hit shuffle and listened to hours of music with decent bass.)
• Simpson math
• Computer controls everyday objects to make art
• Perfect Parking Equation
• 10 Companies that are thriving
• Patience Puzzle requires more than 60 steps to solve
• Forget about RoboCop, we've got RoboFish!
• Fantasy Sports Math
• Math Predicts Better Way to Combat Swine Flu Epidemic
• Mathematical Model for Surviving a Zombie Attack
• Math whiz beats calculators
• 4-H now includes robotics
• Is there a way to grade teachers?
• Math program based on cryptography
• What does your handwriting say about you?
• Save $500 per month
• Magic Tricks and Math
• Those tricky Beatles
• Philosophy: a public school that has an API score of 967 out of 1000
• Pro football player or neurosurgeon, why not both?
• Paint the roofs white
• Golf ball math
• Credit Card math
• Learn directly from the Masters: Youtube EDU, Academic Earth, iTunes U
• NXTway more info
• NXT Segway using Line Sensor
• Dasher: A new paradigm for mouse based typing
• Home Prices Low But No Bargain When Compared to Wages
• Students snap photos from space with a weather balloon
• Ten best jobs, top 3 are math based
• The Last Lecture, an inspirational lecture
• Why is Algebra so important?
• Binary penny perpetual calendar
• Real life math from Wonder Years star
• Whenever I get a little down about the problems in my life... I listen to the Galaxy Song
• Simple ways to supercharge your brain
• 12 year old saves the world
• Save the planet, save your wallet, wecansolveit.org
• Kick the oil addiction, try the Pickens Plan
• SoCal Home Prices
• Girls and Boys and Math
• A project one of my students is working on this summer (Mars Science Laboratory)(student's name withheld for privacy reasons)
• Bomb defusing robots
• Sage words about the economy from a smart guy
• Parents say kids need more math
• Problems that need to be solved for the 21st Century
• Best foods for thinking

• For Rube Goldberg fans

Web Master: Michael Weingarden
Former rocket scientist, builder of the better mousetrap, currently on a mission to save the world one math class at a time.

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