Mark Fitch

@Mainefly Either option is flawed. Time zones are political things not related to health or astronomy. High noon occurs at 2pm here because having more time zones is inconvenient for business. Northern areas, Maine is in the south from where I live, do not see the same problems or benefits

Don’t they remember doing this in the 70s and what a huge mistake it was. The only way to avoid a clock change, is to make standard time, standard! That’s the whole point of standard time.

@jetwhine To be clear it was over weight for icing conditions, not overweight

Exceeding the weight limitation by more than 1,000 pounds signals a bad pilot attitude and perhaps of the company. Alaska Caravan Found Overweight Before Fatal Crash avweb.com/aviation-news/…

@TedG @maanow @tandfSTEM Ximena Catepillan who worked on this will be presenting on other ethnomathematics topics at the MAA PNW Section meeting in June at the University of Alaska Anchorage

Know of undergrad-level mathematicians interested in Ethnomathematics? Share this fun article from the @maanow Math Horizons about the hare paenga on Rapa Nui. How would you determine if they truly are ellipses? doi.org/10.1080/107241… #math @tandfSTEM #ethnomathematics

@howie_hua Too scary for many

What do you think of my Halloween costume? Some are saying that it's improper.

@TienChihMath Gills

@dtkung Sometimes see this in mud as well. Can cover an area a square foot or more

Help! Here's an ice structure we found in the woods after a night where it was barely freezing (28 degrees or so.) For scale it's about 8" across. What is it? How does it form?

@AlaskaAir @AlaskaAir now 4 for 4: all my flights delayed. None with good communication. Locked on plane for an hour as crees did very little work

@drmfitch Ugh, I am sorry to hear that. I hope they have things operating correctly soon. Please reach back out once travel is complete if you would like to discuss your experience further. -Annie

Bad day for @AlaskaAir . One hour after landing and they have not started off loading luggage for 792 due to mechanical issue. No info from them

@AlaskaAir 2 hours 45 minutes later luggage off loaded. Never an announcement from @AlaskaAir . One employee provided what little she was told but she was swamped.

@AlaskaAir no one working bag drop at ANC

@SitDownPee I typically slice more apple than I can fit in

@TienChihMath Tie ribbons to the top and have students analyze the mathematics of maypole dances

@SitDownPee I have 2 pairs of shoes almost every day, though admittedly I wear both those days

@TienChihMath Some of the projects used in liberal arts mathematics have ties to other fields which might broaden interest, for example analysis of visual art or dance.

@ProfKinyon What are the rest of the words?

@SitDownPee @ZJAyres It's too much fun to be serious about it

@evelynjlamb @slcmoves Somewhere in the Netherlands they had push to cross buttons for the bike lanes separate from the pedestrian ones. Useful. The sensors used for cars work by detecting large mass via electrical property (not weight). We cyclists don't have enough

@slcmoves There are so many traffic lights in this city that don't change for bicycles! I *want* to be a dork who waits for the light to change for me! If you can't set up the sensors to reliably detect bikes, what's the harm in cycling through all directions all the time?

Drivers: Cyclists are scofflaws who don't even respect traffic lights! Traffic lights when a bicycle rolls up on the detection sensor:

@TienChihMath I've been thinking about how to get students to understand the distinction between a function and some representation of it. This is inherently philosophical

@atAlanBell @VisualAlgebra Inkscape happily edits SVG and PDF so I routinely create an initial image in software then clean up in Inkscape

@VisualAlgebra Inkscape would be my call. Apologies, not sure if you're already using it

Looking for advice...nearly all of the graphics I make involve TikZ. But now I need a torus w/ loops. Something like this: people.math.ethz.ch/~pfeller/figs/… What's the best (free) way to do this, with an easy learning curve? I'm sure some of you do this kind of thing a lot. Thank you!