The Other Half

By ACMEScience

Education Social Sciences

What's The Other Half about?

An exploration of the life half of math and the math half of life.

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The Other Half episodes:

03.15.2017
Episode 5: Riding With Strangers
Transportation matters. When people need to get places, but don’t have a good way to do so, it’s more than just a drag for them – it’s also a drag for the economy. Americans are living increasingly far from...
12.04.2016
Episode 4: Weather Talk
We know that The Weather is the most basic, most mundane small talk topic in, you know, the world. We understand that The Weather is just boring to discuss. Except when it isn’t. Join us in this episode as we discuss the...
12.30.2015
Episode 3: Math and Patent Law
After a conference Anna attended this summer, during which she and her colleagues considered whether they could legally protect the work they produced, we began to wonder: To what extent can math be considered—and protected as—intellectual property? Already comfortable with mathematical...
12.21.2015
Episode 2: The Road Trip
In The Road Trip, Anna and Annie look into the math that undergirds the great American summertime tradition of rolling down the windows, turning up the stereo, and touring the countryside by automobile. Randy Olson has made the planning part easy by computing the optimal...
12.08.2015
Episode 1: Racism and Segregation
In Racism and Segregation, Anna and Annie call on two people whose online contributions have helped paint a picture of racism and segregation in this country. Dustin Cable’s work on the Racial Dot Map paints this picture in a nearly literal...
12.08.2015
Episode 0: Hello world!
Welcome to The Other Half. You’ll get to know us well as you continue to listen to our show, but Episode 0 is the first element of our set. Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes or via RSS