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"http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html
Illiterate Women Map of the World
This is one of my favorite sites. Very useful. "Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest." I encourage you to take a look.
Okay I have been quoted:
"Does everybody know 2p-1 now? How am I going to win that big prize money if that next prime number is lurking --on it's way out through the collective computers of college freshman geeks hoping to earn money for a Spring Break bash in Flordia somewhere. So exasperating."
NUMBERS
by Mary Cornish
I like the generosity of numbers.
The way, for example,
they are willing to count
anything or anyone:
two pickles, one door to the room,
eight dancers dressed as swans.
I like the domesticity of addition--
add two cups of milk and stir--
the sense of plenty: six plums
on the ground, three more
falling from the tree.
And multiplication's school
of fish times fish,
whose silver bodies breed
beneath the shadow
of a boat.
Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone else's
garden now.
There's an amplitude to long division,
as it opens Chinese take-out
box by paper box,
inside every folded cookie
a new fortune.
And I never fail to be surprised
by the gift of an odd remainder,
footloose at the end:
forty-seven divided by eleven equals four,
with three remaining.
Three boys beyond their mothers' call,
two Italians off to the sea,
one sock that isn't anywhere you look.
I went to hear Dr. Paul Farmer, M.D/Ph.D lecture tonight. I have read most of his work published in book form. He has had such a profound effect on educating my sense of ethic of care and introducing me further into the concept of structural violence. I was delighted with his presentation tonight and found myself encouraged and challenged simultaneously. From a review of my notes I recount his clarion call to THINK HARD about solving problems. He reminded his audience of his success in using new resources to meet old challenges. It was a radical notion for him to embrace that "cost isn't fixed" when cost is relational to effectiveness. He went on to remind us of recognizing the difference between “a question that starts the conversation or a question to end the conversation.” “In solving problems,” he said “there have to be creative ways. We need new models –we’ve come up with one before we will come up with more.”
Pennies don’t fall from heaven. They’re down below; more likely to be found near sewer drains, on the asphalt, beside dog droppings, and spent matches, worn shoes even beggars leave behind.