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Video Presentations

• New Cancer Mentality (Video Interview): Dr. John McGowan on the Bathtub Mechanism to treat Cancer  (1 Hour)
• Solving Problems with Math  (WMV, 10:30, 768 Kbps, 40 MB Total) (Best video quality, please watch this version if possible.)
• Solving Problems with Math   (MP4, 45MB) (Good video quality, MPEG-4 version plays everywhere)

Articles on the Math Blog

• How to Build a Recommendation Engine (September 24, 2012)
• How to Hang Yourself with Statistics (September 2, 2012)
• STEM Shortages, Purple Squirrels, and Leprechauns (August 26, 2012)
• The Ph.D. Glut is Bad for the United States (August 20, 2012)
• The Mathematics of the Ph.D. Glut  (August 11, 2012)
• Seven Scientific Calculators for Computer Users (August 2, 2012)
• The Government Did Too Invent the Internet (July 30, 2012)
• Floating Point Arithmetic in the Bourne Again Shell (BASH) (July 23, 2012)
• Displaying Error Bars in GNU Octave (July 15, 2012)
• The Mathematics of Autism (July 9, 2012)
• Breaking the Maya Code Video Review (June 25, 2012)
• Ten Great Quick Calculators for Computer Users (June 18, 2012)
• Top Secrete Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II Video Review (June 11, 2012)
• The Return of the Mythical Man Month (May 28, 2012)
• Simulating Cell Chemistry for Health and Medicine (May 23, 2012)
• How the Hippies Saved Physics Book Review (April 2, 2012)
• Recent Data for Planning Mathematical Software Projects (January 19, 2012)
• Estimating the Cost and Schedule of Mathematical Software (January 10, 2012)
• Animations of a Possible Cure for Cancer (October 31, 2011)
• Tackling Cancer with Math (October 7, 2011)
• Are Fingerprints Unique? (September 20, 2011)
• The Magical Mathematics of Numb3rs (August 29, 2011)
• Creating Cartoon Voices with Math (August 15, 2011)
• Can Mathematics Cure Cancer? (July 11, 2011)
• Eberhardt Rechtin and the Barrier Course: A Case Study in Math Education (July 5, 2011)
• Protecting Valuable Intellectual Property in Octave (June 27, 2011)
• Genius, Breakthroughs, and the Manhattan Project (June 20, 2011)
• But It Worked in the Computer Simulation! (June 6, 2011)
• The Manhattan Project Considered as a Fluke (May 23, 2011)
• The Game of Life in Octave (May 16, 2011)
• Associative Arrays and Cellular Automata in Octave (May 9, 2011)
• Knowledge is Power...Maybe (May 2, 2011)
• Plotting and Graphics in Octave (April 25, 2011)
• Debating Deliberate Practice (April 18, 2011)
• A Closer Look at Maxima (February 21, 2011)
• LAME: A Case Study in Mathematical Programming (February 15, 2011)
• The Scope of Mathematical Programming Projects (February 9, 2011)
• Using Maxima Output in Octave  (January 31, 2011)
• Using Octave, a Free MATLAB Alternative (January 24, 2011)
• Octave: An Alternative to the High Cost of MATLAB (January 17, 2011)
• When Science Fails (January 10, 2011)
• Gold Fever (October 30, 2010)
• Frankenstein Functions (October 12, 2010)
• The Quantum Mystics (October 3, 2010)
• Symbolmania (September 27, 2010)
• Bad Mathematics: A Trillion Dollar Problem (September 21, 2010)
• Quantum Catfight (September 14,  2010)
• Einstein: Superman or Super Stubborn? (September 3, 2010)
• An Unreasonable Man (January 31, 2010)
• Kepler's New Astronomy (December 17, 2009)
• Faster, Better, Cheaper Search Engines (October 25, 2009)
• Complex Algorithm Research and Development: Harder Than Many Think (July 20, 2009)

Software Engineering

• Faster, Better, Cheaper Search Engines
• Complex Algorithm Research and Development: Harder Than Many Think
• Bamboozled by Mathematical Models
• Programming Management 101
• Evaluating Technical Feasibility: Lessons from the Madoff Scandal
• Why TV Lost

Science

Space

• John McGowan Interview on The Space Show
• Can the private sector make a breakthrough in space access? (HTML)
• Cheap Access to Space: Lessons from past breakthroughs (HTML)
• Flying Saucers and Science (Book Review)
• The Inconclusive UFO Evidence (Book Review)
• The Inconclusive UFO Evidence II (Book Review)
• Lost in Space: The Fall of NASA and the Dream of a New Space Age (Book Review) (HTML)

Biology

• System-Level Genetic Codes Using a Transposable Element-Like Mechanism with Applications to Cancer
• System-Level Genetic Codes: An Explanation for Biological Complexity
• The Jigsaw Model: An Explanation for the Evolution of Complex Biochemical Systems and the Origin of Life

Problems with Science

• Problems with Popular Science
• Falsifiability in Particle Physics
• The Myth of Falsifiablity
• Psychosurgery (HTML)

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