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Dec 23, 2015
There's been some outrage over the terms of the new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) drone registry. The key thing is that the registry will make owner's addresses and names available to the…
Dec 22, 2015
I got my contract this evening to teach Calculus I at UMUC. I've taught almost the entire mathematics sequence over the last 5 years. But calculus is new to me. For a…
Dec 17, 2015
I was thinking about spherical geometry the other day and discussing other alternative geometric systems via email. We all remember through high school geometry that there are some thing we can prove…
Dec 15, 2015
David Kopel of the Volokh Conspiracy has a nice blog post on the Maryland State Guard. The Maryland State Guard was initially created to provide homeland defense during World War II. From…
Dec 12, 2015
In my estimate of the costs of gun violence, someone suggests that amortizing the costs across ammunition is not an appropriate solution, giving this example: I doubt just take $9.1 million X…
Dec 11, 2015
Here's another article on the environmental justice effects of climate change. From right here in Maryland, researchers used survey data to show that vulnerable populations believe their health is at risk from…
Dec 10, 2015
The owner of an auto repair shop, whose shop sits on the Mill Creek floodplain in Delaware, has been flooded 32 times since 1989. Following completion of a flood abatement project by…
Dec 9, 2015
I gave my talk tonight on numerical analysis in R and the talk is already up on YouTube. ::youtube{video="BmH9iZ-w4PQ"} There's an interesting set of questions at the end about resources for introducing…
Dec 8, 2015
Over the weekend, I estimated the economic costs of (only) the deaths attributed to gun related violence in the United States up to Friday. Now we should figure out what to do…
Dec 7, 2015
This evening, I am at the Maryland Daily Record's banquet for their 2015 Leading Women Awards. I am here to see Nina Basu honored: ::embed{href="http://thedailyrecord.com/leading-women/nina-basu/"} Because she's awesome.
Dec 5, 2015
I keep hearing about the costs of gun violence in the United States. But given my experience with benefit-cost analysis, I think about actual costs. I want to know what is the…