Category Archives: Mathematics

Let’s Unpack “the Personal Is Political”

Posted on January 11, 2017 by M. Meo

  This morning brought, on the usual disreputable websites, the appearance of another disapproving look, this time by a military historian, of the past two Presidential administrations.  Andrew Bracevich the author of America’s War for the Middle East: A Military History, in … Continue reading →

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We Were Never Data-driven

Posted on October 31, 2016 by M. Meo

  I’m retired, after more than twenty years full-time teaching in high school, in Portland Public Schools.  During that time, and with greater and greater urgency toward the end of my tenure, we were continually beseeched, as teachers, to do … Continue reading →

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This is how the System Rejects Real Change

Posted on June 10, 2016 by M. Meo

Michael hi this is Emma I am just writing to let you know that a motion has been made to be voted on by the SCC to expel you from the Pacific Green Party. What this would mean is that … Continue reading →

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The First Meeting in March

Posted on March 4, 2016 by M. Meo

As the sun sank slowly in the West the Cascadia Chapter convened its weekly meeting at Random Order cafe in Northeast Portland.  Dave Westerlund, Charlotte, Miller, Herschel Soles, and Your Intrepid Reporter were there promptly at 6:30 p.m., the scheduled … Continue reading →

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I Said It Couldn’t Be Done

Posted on February 11, 2016 by M. Meo

For the entire life of the Large Interferometric Gravitational Observatory, just down the road here a ways and founded and directed by my old teachers at Caltech, I said the effort was a complete boondoggle, since the sensitivity of measurement … Continue reading →

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What Is the Islamic State, in Historical Perspective?

Posted on January 19, 2016 by M. Meo

The eminent twentieth-century British historian Arnold Toynbee observed in his 1948 Civilization on Trial (pp. 164-187 of the 1971 paperback edition) that, once the Westernizers [whom he labels “Herodians”, after the loyal-to-Rome king of Judea in Jesus’ time] and the … Continue reading →

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German Females and the Immigrant Wave

Posted on January 18, 2016 by M. Meo

As we know the women of Germany, specifically those of their ancient seat of the Archbishopric of Cologne, were assaulted by quote hundreds of immigrant men unquote on New Year’s Eve. This afternoon I decided to visit the so-called Unz … Continue reading →

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Qualifications to be a lifelong learner

Posted on October 8, 2015 by M. Meo

As the accompanying graphic from the prestigious economic weekly newspaper published in London, England, shows, Caltech admits and advances students based on merit. Period. –which is, as I said, a good start for yours truly, secretary of the Cascadia Chapter, … Continue reading →

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Traduction par le Maître pour les élèves

Posted on May 6, 2015 by M. Meo

I have stolen this chart from today’s Paul Krugman column — no, excuse the imprecision, blog — but my discussion will be in language accessible to high school students, as in my misspent middle age I devoted twenty-seven years to … Continue reading →

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L’État Présent des Recherches Assidues sur les Manuscrits Mathématiques de Marx: 1

Posted on March 31, 2015 by M. Meo

L’étude devant nous commence avec la question en quelle langue à poursuivre un tour d’horizon de la littérature récente sur le sujet. C’est en français en part pour la raison de la presentation il y a trente années de M. … Continue reading →

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