Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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A special edition for gannet-lovers*

One of the things I did while I was in New Zealand recently was to visit the Cape Kidnappers gannet reserve, the largest mainland gannet reserve in the world with 13000 birds**. There are four colonies of the Australasian gannet or takapu in the area, including one where visitors can get very close to the birds, […]

Life’s little mysteries #6

When referring to someone else’s mental bewilderment, we tend to say “so-and-so is not all there”.

When referring to one’s own, which is more correct: “I am not all there” or “I am not all here”?

Whatever. Clearly I am not […]