The Super Bowl is upon us this Sunday.  The red-clad Kansas City Chiefs take on the slightly different shape of red clad 49’ers from San Francisco (of course they will be in there Gold with Red highlights jerseys but who cares).  It is odd just how much of the viewing year centers on this one event.  From commercials to parties to football pools the Super Bowl, a uniquely US phenomenon, shows just how free and, sometimes silly, we can be.  Hopefully a good time will be had be most (sadly not by all since someone has to lose).

Now onto the columns.

One of the weirdest and paradoxical parts of mathematics is the Axiom of Choice. Aristotle To Digital takes a hard look at this controversial, mathematical concept and demonstrates that humans still have a long way to go in dealing with infinity and infinite sets.

The trendy new idea circulating amongst certain circles is the forgiveness of student debt.  Certainly student debt is burdensome and even crushing for students but is forgiveness really the correct amelioration?  Common Cents argues that such a course of action has terrrible unseen costs and incentivizes or even rewards behavior bad for society,

Continuing with the concept of vorticity, this month’s Under The Hood looks at the Rankine Vortex and some of the difficult concepts such a simple model brings in its train..