January 2010
20 posts
m = the slope of the line
“A straight line in a coordinate system is a graph of a linear equation of the
form y = mx + b, where m is called the slope of the line and b is called the
x,y y-intercept.”
Try as I might, I just CAN NOT make coordinate geometry seem interesting or relevant right now.
Haiti: Help with money, not stuff →
(via courtneyc)
Good reminder.
The Americanization of Mental Illness →
“For more than a generation now, we in the West have aggressively spread our modern knowledge of mental illness around the world. We have done this in the name of science, believing that our approaches reveal the biological basis of psychic suffering and dispel prescientific myths and harmful stigma. There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world...
