Author | Conflict Analyst | Presenter | Professor
Michael Livingston

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Fun With Mathematics!

Just to be sure things don’t bend too far into the medieval around here, I give thee … Hotdamn. It just cracks me up when e says she’s uncomfortable with being rounded to the nearest tenth. (And if you don’t quite get the joke, check out Fourier’s proof that e …

Ragnarok and Baseball

A twice-former student of mine from my University of Rochester days, Tina Tsao, sent along notice of an article in the New York Times comparing the actions of a squirrel in right field of the Yankees’ 5-3 victory over the Red Sox Tuesday night to the figure of Ratatosk in …

Global Warming? Blame the Cows!

I wrote a short story last night, a Science Fiction piece centering on curbing global greenhouse emissions by changing our diet. As usual, I coughed and handwaved my way through anything that required actual numbers or figures, like the number of cattle on the planet or how many million tons …