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This is what I wrote in January 2018:
- We’ve been making some energy efficiency improvements on our house, and we might be adding solar panels soon. I rounded up some blogs I’ve found that crunch the numbers on energy efficiency and global energy news.
- Roots of Unity turned 5 this month, so of course there was an obligatory anniversary post.
- Kevin Knudson and I released two new episodes of our podcast My Favorite Theorem featuring guests Mohamed Omar and Jeanne Clelland.
- I wrote about some civil rights and social justice-inspired math lessons for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
- My favorite space of the month was the catenoid. Don’t tell my advisor it’s taken me almost three years to add a minimal surface to the list!
- In the last edition of the newsletter, I mentioned that I was going to be making an effort to listen to more music by women composers and share some of those on Twitter using the #womencomposerswednesday hashtag. So far, the project has been a rousing success. I’ve shared music from Rebecca Clarke, Amy Beach, Caroline Shaw, Grete von Zieritz, and Sarah Hopkins. The Caroline Shaw piece, Partita for 8 Voices, absolutely blew me away. If that was the only new piece of music I heard this year, I would already consider it a win. Thanks to Craig Kaplan, who suggested the piece to me. I’ve really appreciated all the suggestions people have sent me. There is so much good music!
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