Are you a new(ish) math professor? Know someone who is? MAA Project NExT is a fantastic way to jumpstart a career in higher ed math. Applications are due today!
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Race Updates:
1. Pogacar lost in a one-up sprint.
2. Orban lost (yay!)
3. I made it through 10 miles - a lot slower than I used to, but wearing a meaningful message on my back. Beautiful day for a run!

3 very different races tomorrow:
1. Tadej Pogacar trying to win his missing cycling monument at Paris-Roubaix: www.paris-roubaix.fr/en
2. Hungarians trying to get rid of their strong-man authoritarian: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
3. Me trying to run 10 miles cherryblossom.org/pre-race/eve...

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

Makes me a little sad that both Banksy and Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto have been (probably?) identified. I think I preferred haunting mystery.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...
www.reuters.com/investigates...

Trump accepting the FIFA Peace Prize.

Hey #FIFA - how's that Peace Prize looking now that the recipient has bombed a country for a month and threaded to wipe an civilization off the map?

Ahead of the SCOTUS arguments about birthright citizenship: when I was born (in Wisconsin) my father was not yet a citizen - just like John Roberts' grandfather.

What's your immigration story?

Just a reminder that TPSE Math has stats about the proportion of college grads getting math and math/stat degrees - not just nationally, but for every institution (averaged over a four year period).

Super interesting to see the variation across states/institutions.
www.tpsemath.org/math-vs-math...

You beat me to it! Thanks!

I'll be out there at my local NoKings protest. Who else?

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

BREAKING: There are now 3,267 #NoKings protests now on the map for THIS SATURDAY March 28.
Find yours at NoKings.org.

In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.

I'm definitely late to his party: they identified Banksy? That makes me kind of sad. The mystery added to the experience of the brilliant art - at least for me.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

Love it. I think Chad's version of that should involve his viola.

Thank you for working on this. It's an incredibly important way to get around that part of town for us cyclists.

New York Times headline: US lifts sanctions on Iranian oil.

Funding your opponents? Sounds more like "losing" than "winning."

Historic not historically. Also not hysterical.

Beautiful sunset over the St Mary's River.

It's been a while since I biked down to catch the sunset - this time from Historically St Mary's City.

Ryan Clark reacts to White House war video using hits from him and other NFL players| The Pivot YouTube video by The Pivot Podcast

Wonderfully touching, thoughtful, poignant view of the reckless unserious leadership that has gotten us into this war. If you haven't taken the 3 minutes to watch this, you should.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9i...

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That's all! Good night!

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Happy Pi Day!

I agree with you about so much...but not this. Why not leverage the public's one-day attention to math instead of bemoaning it?

Congrats, Spencer! Very proud of you!

In 2025, leading mathematicians met in secret to test a new AI model. Its proofs sounded like those of a real mathematician presenting a complex argument.

But were we giving it more credit than it deserved? Are we at risk of accepting proofs we can’t understand?
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Every one of us tax-paying Americans paid to send a tomahawk missile into an elementary school killing ~100 kids. Let that sink in.

Maybe you can go home again.

(Watertown SD.)

No! Time to go look it up....

The NYTimes Bee doesn't take "continuo"

"I feel erased!"
- every cellist who has suffered through Pachelbel's Canon.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1936) "I Hate War" Speech (Pathe) YouTube video by RobertHJacksonCenter

"I have seen war .... I hate war."
- FDR

youtu.be/hhAFKMIyKW4?...

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

I'm against this illegal war.