Archive for November, 2009

Stats and accompanying music

I’m taking an upper division statistics class for math majors this semester that’s not going so well.  I’ve never had to work so hard to connect concepts to solving problems before and even when I do finally get everything figured out and am confident about any of the problems found in our text, the exam […]

Water

I had this crazy thought that things would slow down a little after the conference.  I definitely wasn’t considering what missing a week of classes was going to do to my workload.  Oh well. The conference was a good experience for me.  It was a smaller conference that brought together policy makers, social scientists, and […]

God is inadequate

From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: there is no objective view of “God”: each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.  The same is true of atheism.  The statement “I do not believe in God” has meant something slightly different at […]