Posts tagged: politics

No, this is not an elevator pitch for anything, quite the opposite. I just made an app, and it's called Pitcher! And by that, I don't mean I really wrote any code, it's all written by deepseek and...

I'm often interested in understanding why people believe the things they believe and why they behave the way they behave. Usually the former is a reason for the latter. Pondering these, I've realized...

It has become very common for companies, entities, institutes and so on to signal that they care about other cultures and languages. For most of them it simply means more customers, more business,...

Hamid said something that stuck with me: how come nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, has my point of view? Why does no one say the things that are in my head, while when I'm talking to you guys...

Iran has had no internet for four weeks. Not slow, not restricted. Gone. The only app that works is Bale, made by the Iranian government. Everyone knows what it is. Everyone knows what it's for....

Imagine you own a company. One day, you ask a senior manager how they decided to spend a million dollars of the company's budget. They look you in the eye and say: "I'm not going to tell you. If you...

I left Iran to pursue the American dream. Not really, I just wanted to study and hopefully get a decent job. Soon after my arrival, I faced the harsh reality that life is not what is shown in the...

After meeting with Susan Parker, the vice provost of the student experience at the University of Calgary, and Brianna (Bree) Huene from International Student Services, the university announced a...

If you believe you have been discriminated against by a federal organization in Canada, you can file a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). Here is a step-by-step guide to the...

For the past couple of years my colleagues and I organize a session at the JMM (Joint Mathematics Meeting). For the past couple of years that I've been in Canada I traveled back to US several times...

- I've moved to US from Iran several years ago. One of the topics that always intrigued me is the history of white vs. native people. At the beginning I was interested in learning more about history....

I've been a math postdoc at University of Calgary for two years now, and I'll be here for at least one more year. The teaching environment is very pleasant, and the resources are abundant....

I've recently moved to Canada and applied for permanent residency through the Express Entry system. If your situation is similar to me (you have a higher education degree, a few years of part time --...

In a huge graph, it is hard to determine a bottleneck by just looking at it, or doing any type of search. And by a bottleneck, I mean part of graph that is not very much connected to the other part....

Yesterday I got several emails from various people at charge at the university stating that they are concerned about the people who are directly affected by the US ban on people from muslim-majority...

Visit http://ncase.me/polygons for an incredible presentation of mathematical sociology using simple fun games.