Daily Archives: January 24, 2017

Hidden Figures Brings Math to Hollywood

The new movie, Hidden Figures, tells the true stories of three extraordinary female African American mathematicians working at NASA in the 1960s. The story primarily follows the lives of Katherine Goble Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, who fought against great odds to achieve unprecedented opportunities of the time but were still mostly forgotten by…

Political Giant

Do you think President Donald Trump is a political giant? Or perhaps you think the Democrats or Republicans are political giants? If so, I think you are dead wrong. The real political giant is politics as a whole, which has become a black hole. Let me explain. Over a year ago, I started gaining interest…

Respect Should Not Be Up for Debate

As soon as we can comprehend what “respect” is, we are taught to respect many different things in our lives. We respect our parents, because they are raising us. We respect our elders, because they are wiser and deserve to be listened to, and they are in a position of knowing what is best. We…

Get Well, Stay Well

The “ketogenic diet” has recently become a more popular dietary regime. In short, the ketogenic diet is a system of eating where most calories come from dietary fat and very little come from carbohydrates. Eating this way will switch the body from glucose metabolism to “fat” metabolism for energy, and this fat metabolism state is…

Ski Team Studs Take Third at Winter Park

Mines Club Ski team took third at Winter Park last weekend, coming in behind University of Utah and CU Boulder. Mac Bailey, their top finisher, took fifth in the slalom race on Saturday, Jan 14, and fourth in the giant slalom. For those unfamiliar with alpine skiing terms, Captain Brian Coleman has an explanation. “Slalom…

Spotlight on Athlete: Elizabeth Tobin

Elizabeth Tomon was nominated for the 2017 Allstate WBCA Good Works Team because of her work with team IMPACT. IMPACT matches children who have life threatening illnesses with a sports team. The women’s basketball team here at Mines is matched with Ella. Tomon is working to bring IMPACT to other varsity athletic teams on the…

Puzzles: January 2017

Sudoku Kenken Hello reader, You may have noticed several typos in the past few issues of the puzzle section of the Oredigger. With this new semester will come better proof-reading and possibly even solutions, so hand onto your paper. Here are the first two puzzles of the semester, completely error-free. The Kenken’s number set is…

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