While I was tutoring Thomasina today, she casually asked me what “carnal embrace” meant. I was caught off guard at first because I wasn’t expecting to have to explain to my 13 year old student that it was another term for sexual intercourse. I quickly tried to think of a proper explanation to give her and the only thing that came to my mind was comparing it to “throwing one arms around a side of beef”. Understandably she was still confused, yet very curious, so she kept pestering me with questions. I couldn’t think of any better ways to define what carnal embrace was, so I uncomfortably explained to her…

Currently in America, the epidemic of opioid addiction is running ramped. The drug dealers are no longer sketchy figures loitering on corners in the late night, they are pharmaceutical companies and poorly trained physicians prescribing opioids. It is the physicians obligation to aid their clients when their in pain. However, it is found more often than not that doctors are overprescribing their clients with opioids. The end result, addiction.  Prescribing opioids shouldn’t necessarily be stopped overall, instead there needs to be more restrictions regarding what’s being prescribed and how much. It is hard not to overprescribe because prescribed opioids are the most favored type of pain-reliever. It was said that…

This article talks about how the FBI manages the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). In brief words, the UCR is a data system that collects crime across the US, which is supplied by smaller law enforcement agencies. This article addresses some of the flaws within the UCR. One of the main flaws being how crimes are weighted. Vittert, the writer of the article, believes that crimes should be weighted. There are 2 parts of the UCR, the first part being the murder, rape, robbery, larceny-theft and arson (serious crimes) and the second part being simple assault, loitering, embezzlement, DUI’s, and prostitution (less serious crimes). However, when these different types of crimes…

“Guns Will Soon Kill More Than Cars,” is one of the stories in A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper that is part of Section 2, which is called, “Local, Business, and Social Issues.” This section is going to be comparing percentages and talking about the intensity, or in other words weight, that each percentage has. Paulos refers to an article and claims that it is deceptive. To support this he provides us with a scenario involving politics and the electorate. He says that 80% of the electorate supports gun control and 20% opposes gun control. From that 20%, 15% objects gun control and will vote against any politician that wants to have…

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