[Origami] 2 Origami sightings β€” Origami books in prisons; origami fortune-teller for 2018 economic forecast

2018-01-16 Thread Karen Reeds
β€œIn Prisons, Chips But Not Chaucer,” by Gina Bellefante, New York Times, Sunday Jan 14, 2018, metro section, p. 4 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/nyregion/why-prisoners-can-choose-cheetos-but-not-chaucer.html?_r=0 : [The NY State Department of Corrections was] moving ahead with an entirely

[Origami] Origami at the Joint Mathematics Meeting Art Exhibit

2018-01-16 Thread Faye E Goldman
I just returned from the annual Joint Mathematics Meeting. There are two major mathematics organizations in the US. The AMS (American Mathematics Society) and the MAA (Mathematical Association of America). Together they hold a joint (combined) meeting in January. There is a mathematical art