Fellow Inventors

     A look at some of our more-successful fellow board game designers; also posted on the CWatKPCN group site.

Math Joke (10/22)

     I'ma try to post a math joke at least once every week or so, just to make me remember to keep posting stuff. We'll start off with an easy one, and since Halloween's right around the corner...

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?

Conundrums

 Murdered cricketers. Who ever knew there so many, and why on earth are they important enough to have an entire Wikipedia page? That, indeed, is a conundrum.
 Speaking of conundrums, I have one for you. Consider this: a man comes out of his house and walks one league south, then one league east, then one league north, then finds himself back at his front door.
Able to explain? Please do. It is indeed related to non-Euclidean geometry, in case you're wondering.

Perhaps...

     I've been looking around at potential books for the class for second quarter, because while The Talent Code seems perfectly interesting, it also seems to be almost exactly the same as Outliers. Of course, that's kind of what the teachers want us to read, but I figured we could at least get a book with a better title. 

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton

Quarter 1: Outliers

In-class analysis and applications of the concepts addressed in our first quarter required reading book, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

Elementary, my dear self.

     Non-Euclidean geometry is defined as any geometry in which the parallel postulate is not true, which tends to occur in elliptical and hyperbolic planes (as opposed to flat ones, of course), hence the two main geometries within the non-Euclidean ones (geometry-ception, eh?), aptly named elliptical and hyperbolic geometry. The parallel postulate can refer to Euclid's fifth postulate (If a straight line falls on two straight lines in such a manner that the interior angles on the same side are together less than two right angles, then the straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which are the angles less than the two right angles) or Playfair's axiom (Through any point in a plane, there is at most one straight line parallel to a given straight line).

Book, books galore!

     Some potentially interesting material in varying degrees of relevance. The general trend is from most to least relevant, but there are some stragglers. As you may be able to tell, there are many books I find potentially interesting. Format in parentheses for books that I actually have.

Colonel White and the Kung Pau Chicken Nuggets

Our group name is Colonel White and the Kung Pau Chicken Nuggets, KWatKPCN for short.

Group member name- Personality Type- Topic of Interest
Lily- INTJ- Non-Euclidean Geometry
Nate- INFP- Psychology of Child Trauma
Jasmine- ESFJ- Social Psychology
Andy- ENFJ- Neuropsychology and Memory

Colonel White and the Kung Pau Chicken Nuggets- The GeoPsych Ward (site)

Euclid

Euclid of Alexandria (see Fig. 1) lived a long, long time ago. Almost as long ago as Pythagoras, though not quite, unless he was born over 200 years before he "flourished."