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Applied Mathematics: By The Numbers, A Website's First Year
Numbers, charts, and graphs are all around us. What do they mean? What connections can we make from them? Who will help us understand the things they say? Our resident statisticians, that's who! They will attempt to explain the digits that shape your world. This week: We take a look at the data for a website that has recently celebrated its one year anniversary. READ MORE
A Quick Note Regarding Allen Salkin’s Return
As first noticed by Awl resident latke expert Doree Shafrir, it is worth quickly mentioning that the byline of Allen Salkin-once appropriately dubbed the "Seymour Hersh of the Sunday Styles"-has returned to the pages of the New York Times in today's Dining section. READ MORE
The Worst Festivus Ever
Today is Festivus. Which, if you didn't know, is "a holiday for the rest of us." Beyond this, I have no real idea what a Festivus is, but I do know this: Allen Salkin wrote the book on it. And Allen Salkin was laid off from the New York Times last week. READ MORE
Last Night's Company Holiday Party, Reviewed
This year's ______ holiday party was shocking, groundbreaking. It was-dare it be said-a gamechanging affair. Why? Food. Yes. Food. There was food there. Like, good food. Because whenever you go to a holiday party and get wasted, what do you want? Food! And what always happens? Either A) there's no food, or, B) the food is passed around on trays and you have to elbow your way through packs of people or position yourself by the kitchen entrance in order to accost the servers who emerge from it to get the little mini-eggrolls and then after that whatever other horrid mini-thing (and what the fuck is a mini-egg roll? Like, really. People need to stop making unnecessary mini-things. Just make the big-sized things smaller) comes out of the kitchen that is greasy and typically not so great, but whatever, it's free food, you're gonna eat it because you're trashed and hungry. READ MORE
Applied Mathematics: Pinch-O-Meter
Numbers, charts, and graphs are all around us. What do they mean? What connections can we make from them? Who will help us understand the things they say? Our resident statistician, that's who! He will attempt to explain the digits that shape your world. This week: The Pinch-O-Meter. READ MORE
