Okay, Margaret Cho had a particular history and has a particular personality, and that's part of why people like her. But to me, that gag gets old fast. I worry that I can't be a …

I envy Shayna her good fortune and her medal, but I also know that I don't have anything approaching a 3.96 GPA, nor such a deep and wide array of achievements, so there's no way …

I met Shayna Parekh my freshman year at Cal. We took a history class and a seminar on women in leadership together. We hung out sometimes, and she reminded me of the best aspects of …

I won a free drink at Tully's today because I guessed that Victoria Falls sits on the river Zambezi and I was right. I finished watching Margaret Cho's performance recording, which satisfied me more in …

From Crystal and Paulina: "Shopping is tough. Let's do some math." Yesterday I saw part of Margaret Cho's I'm The One That I Want and found it disappointing. Maybe the second half is better. Then …

I scored at the Friends of the Public Library book sale today. I got a free Stanislaw Lem anthology and I bought Ray Lynch's Deep Breakfast and They Might Be Giants's Miscellaneous T on audiocassette …

Until yesterday, I had never before seen a transparency whose title read, "Just When You Thought It Was Safe: MORE Intertwined Languages."

As Leonard noted, last night I went to the Pinker lecture. Steven Pinker said, to paraphrase, "here's my hypothesis of how our memory of words and our computation using rules gets us to speak the …

More Khayyam madness: Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit. You know, …

I am one of those people who have let Omar Khayyam's poetic works overshadow his amazing work as a mathematician. First Lewis Carroll, now Omar Khayyam. What next? A thousand years ago, Andrew Wiles will …