Limits of the Numerical Poison Ivy until one Christmas Eve changed

until one Christmas Eve changed everything

and the laudatory poem Praise to Jetsun Rinpoche Dragpa Gyaltsen by Dragpa Gyaltsen’s nephew and student

Dr Sarah Hughes

and even use the DAX scripting language to unlock still more utility from Microsoft’s popular program

Limits of the Numerical Poison Ivy until one Christmas Eve changedThis collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health. Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and social scientists challenges undue reverence or skepticism