Happy Tuesday! Looks like our neighbors on the East coast are bracing for another snowstorm over the next few days, stay safe and stay warm! We hope that everyone celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday! We honor his legacy and work and encourage folks to remember him in giving back to their communities. Here’s …
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First blog of 2014! We’d like to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and powerful new year. Also a warm one—watch out for the polar vortex! Latin Heat loved Diana Yanez in the Latina Christmas Special, which left audiences “dreaming of a Brown Christmas.” After Ellen talks to Yanez about family and where she finds her funny, and she enlightens audiences and …
Last blog of 2013! With a little help from Steven Strogatz at the New York Times, Annalee Newitz at io9 puzzles through the mystery and consistency of Zipf’s law, formulated by a linguist in 1949, which accurately predicts rank and frequency, power and size relations in everything from languages to cities to bodies. She …
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