My Little Big Math Discoveries

The neat little patterns that sit in math are so beautiful and lovely. As a kid, I was playing with perfect squares and found these couple of patterns. They seemed like such big universal secrets to uncover for little me at the time! What beautiful patterns have you stumbled into? Perfect Squares Last Digit Sequence…

Perfect Squares Digital Root Sequence

One day in middle school, I was playing with perfect squares 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81… Something neat pops out! A bunch of 9-ish things!One number was 9One number was 36, and 3+6=9One number was 81, and 8+1=9 Adding the digits in each number together until we have all single digits…

Perfect Squares Last Digit Sequence

One day in middle school, I was playing with perfect squares 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81…The last digits were: 0, 1, 4, 9, 6, 5, 6, 9, 4, 1, 0It is a palindrome!  Continuing: 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 225,…

10 Reasons Your Pandemic Needs the Novid Early Warning System

10 Reasons Your Pandemic Needs the Novid Early Warning System Get early info that your infections are moving closer in your network (friends of friends of friends)  Adjust your risk budget & mitigation practices (distancing, masking, etc) as you see fit when infections are getting close Complimentary to other pandemic appsOthers: See it has come (notified…

Pick a New Year’s Theme With Me!

Evidence-based guidance says to pick a theme, rather than set goal-like New Years Resolutions. A theme can weather the realities of how our climb to recovery or our plummet into dystopia happens to be looking on a given day, and be similarly flexible within our individual life-moments of soaring and inevitable curveballs. A theme offers…