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by wj The latest nonsense out of Florida has to do with book banning. (Which, Gary Sargent suggests, may have unexpected consequences for Gov. DeSantis.) A new bill would require the instant removal of certain books targeted for objections, even before any sort of evaluative process unfolds. [It] mandates that instructional material facing objection in … Read more
by liberal japonicus The discussion of programming brought a lot of math love out, so I thought I'd toss this up as a quasi-open thread. This Guardian article just popped up about two high school students presenting about a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. I'm still wondering what the shape of the proof would … Read more
by liberal japonicus Lots of folks say that Trump is going to be charged in NY, which is the first of four listed legal problems facing Trump that are listed in this BBC article. In other news, my wife and daughter have become baseball fans because of the WBC and Samurai Japan and possibly because … Read more