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November 20, 2025 9:30 pm (EST)
2015 Blue Jays in Perspective
While I felt disappointment at the moment the Blue Jays lost the playoffs to Kansas City, I believed in retrospect that the Blue Jays had a fantastic season in 2015. I recalled that they were just under .500 after 101 games. The final 61 games of the season saw such a dramatic turnaround that few…
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November 20, 2025 9:30 pm (EST)
On Perspective
People tend to view their own problems under a microscope where every little thing looks big, but view other peoples’ problems from a tall tower where everything looks small. People tend to spend an excessive amount of time thinking about the negatives but too little time thinking about the positives that have happened in their lives.
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November 20, 2025 9:30 pm (EST)
An Insightful Geometry Problem
Calculate the area of the shaded region. There are many solutions to this problem. One can divide the shaded region into triangles and sum these areas. Alternatively, one might deduct the areas of the unshaded triangles from the large rectangle to get the area of the shaded area. These approaches involve straightforward but tedious calculations.…