Research Article

Abstract At the human-marked end of the year – December 31 – we pause to reflect on the completion of one orbit of Earth around the Sun and the beginning of the next cycle. One solar year is not exactly 365 days but about 365.242 days (jpl.nasa.gov), (neefusa.org), an extra ~6 hours that accumulate if ignored. Therefore, we insert a leap day every four years (with additional century exceptions) to keep seasons and solstices aligned. These calendrical facts have deeper metaphors. In addition to…

Abstract Human beings lack the natural limbs of other species – no paws, wings, or gills – yet we excel through collaboration, planning, and reason. In this article, we use the body as a metaphor: the hand models teamwork, the ear models balance and sensing, the nose/lungs model resource management, and mathematics itself models the growth of wisdom. We connect each to physics: for example, the hand’s many forces are summed by Newton’s laws, the ear’s vestibular system obeys wave and motion equations, and…

Abstract Every human mind harbors the urge to create – whether in teaching, cooking, playing with LEGO, or helping others – even if the precise mechanism remains complex. In this article review, we trace creativity from its unconscious neural roots to its cultural and educational expressions, seeking both scientific grounding and human meaning. We draw on cognitive neuroscience (e.g. Andreasen, 2011; Chen et al., 2025) and educational theory (e.g. Dewey, 1929; Confucius, ca. 500 BC) to show how creative ideas “dynamically switch” between brain networks and…

Abstract Christmas is often approached as a temporal event marked by exchange activity. Those activities are like objects, rituals, and expectations. However, with sufficient experience, one begins to recognize that the most enduring gifts are neither wrapped nor consumed. They are relational, emergent, and cumulative, much like conserved quantities in physics that only reveal their invariance after repeated observation. In this reflective article, I, as an educator and mathematical physicist, explore Christmas through the lens of mathematical physics and education, proposing that hope, joy,…

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