Posts tagged health
On Pregnancy and Probability
I have never been pregnant, but from what I understand, it is full of bizarre cravings, frequent bathroom breaks, and a smorgasbord of medical scans and tests. This last part is what concerns Kate Owens. She is a visiting assistant professor in the math department at the College of Charleston, and she is also pregnant with her second child. [...]
Strength in Numbers: Mathematicians U...
A satellite view of Earth. Mathematicians across the globe are devoting 2013 to studying the mathematics behind a wide range of processes on our planet.Image: NOAA/NASA/GOES Project.
Over at Scientific American, I wrote about the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 initiative.
What do polar ice caps, guinea worm disease and wildfires have in com [...]
Two Evelyns and a Katie: a Snapshot o...
Yours truly and Evelyn Ho, a high schooler who is doing some interesting research on Parkinson’s disease.
Evelyn Ho is a senior at Plano Senior High School, just 20 minutes from my parents’ house. The summer before her sophomore year of high school, her grandfather died of Parkinson’s disease, and her grandmother was diagnosed with the [...]
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