Labeling your email reminder as “gentle” has the same effect as labeling your announcement “exciting.”

“I was curious” is pretty much how it always begins.

SO ARRAY INDEXES SHOULD START AT ZERO BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY OFFSETS FROM A POINTER WHICH IS WHAT AN ARRAY VARIABLE ACTUALLY IS AND RANGES SHOULD BE CLOPEN BECAUSE IT'S EASIER TO COMPUTE HOW MANY INDEXES ARE IN THEM AND REASON ABOUT THEM

I’m starting each class by playing a classic TV theme and letting the engineering students multiple-guess the title. Today was the first 100% got right: The Pink Panther.

"Business as usual won’t cut it."

“My statistics professor gave me an F because apparently you don’t have the right to express whatever numbers you want.” — ​Mike Greenfield (Auburn University, Class Of 2025) bit.ly/3Cf1KPo

"Last week, I asked readers to tell me what people don’t get about their job," writes Derek Thompson. "No category of workers wrote back more than teachers and professors." on.theatln.tc/5EVLSDo

Believe it or not, Gmail has just begun giving politicians a free pass to your primary inbox To score points in DC, Google is letting politicians—& only them—bypass the spam filter Democracy doesn't have to be this annoying My latest We The Users piece wapo.st/3fJw5g9

When you make two sign errors in your math homework but they perfectly cancel each other out

I'm pleased and honored to announce that I've been named the newest Unidel Chair in Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware.

There should be a German word for when you download research articles and store them in special folder on your computer even though you know you will never read them.

If you thought the opening credits for The Rings of Power reminded you of vibrational sand patterns, you're not alone—in fact, Steve Mould managed to recreate that intro sequence with some help from cymatics. trib.al/3u9Gv1z

Gotta love a fall morning on campus.

Seems like a good day to remind people of this gem. youtu.be/dR4_OMa5Bs8

I hear that some sickos are slipping divided differences into their Halloween candy this year, so be careful out there!

The pen is 20 years old, so I suppose SIAM is 70. Both seem to be going strong.