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Robert Downey Jr. Is An Excellent Math Teacher
Culture Buzz Forgot your times tables? RDJ is here to help. (via vulture.com)
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This Is The Perfect Face
Culture Buzz Science! Florence Colgate, an 18-year-old student from Kent, England, has what's been anointed by Lorraine Cosmetics as Britain's Perfect Face. Using measurements of her features, she mathematically almost perfectly fits the formulaic standard of beauty.
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Happiness Can Be Measured With Cats
Animals Buzz This is more a science post than a cat post, but learning is important, so. (via thefrogman.me)
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4-D App Will Give You The Best Kind Of Headache
Tech Buzz Designed by a former Dreamworks engineer, The Fourth Dimension is one of the coolest apps I've ever used. It's also the closest thing to a hallucinogen you can download in the App Store.
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Link: 5 Ways To Beat Old-School Games Using Math
http://www.cracked.com/article_19747_5-ways-to-beat-old-s...
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A few years ago, the news came out that computers have ruined the game of checkers forever by coming up with a perfect strategy that can't be beaten. This made us wonder if there were other ways to use math to completely ruin innocent games from our childhoods.
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Pop Culture Math
Culture Buzz Formulations and equations by Matt Cowan, based on various pop culture figures. I was told there would be no math, but I guess this is fine.
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Leap Year Explained
Science Buzz Hey, who put an extra day in my February? Silly universe, why don't you adhere to the mathematics of man?
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Image: Penis Size Math
The Internet: Where the absurd meets the scientific to create the wildly offensive. God bless it. (via reddit.com)
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Courtney Love On Mathematics, Crack Cocaine
Celebrity Buzz The intellectual benefits of crack are apparently boundless. Here's Courtney Love, from the upcoming book Courtney Comes Clean, on the unexpected upside of smoking rock.
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The Math That Saved Apollo 13 Just Sold For $388,375
The Lunar Module Systems Activation Checklist Book from the Apollo 13 mission was sold at auction last night. Anyone else think the winning bidder got a good deal?
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This Guy Is The Coolest Math Teacher Ever
Culture Buzz Not only did Biola University Professor, Matthew Weathers, perform this neat trick in his class, but he also didn't teach any actual math during the lesson. Which ultimately makes him the BEST math teacher.
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Does Biology Explain Why There Are Few Women In Computer Science?
Science Buzz Short answer: NO! But if you really need more proof, PhD student Terri Oda breaks it down for you in a neat little slide show. (via thesocietypages.org)
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The 5 Reasons You Couldn’t Stop Looking At Your TI-83 In Math Class
Tech Buzz Take a look at the best ways to kill time in the back of an Algebra II class in 2003. If you could figure out a way to upload them onto your calculator.
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Image: Dark Side Geometry Lesson
I always thought it was more of a Death Oblate Spheroid, myself. But I guess that's just not as catchy. (Via)
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Image: Geek Wrist Watch
Vying for space on the wrists of style loving nerds, the Geek Wrist Watch displays the time in mathematical notations. I never thought I'd say this, but I think the calculator watch has just been one-upped in the geek department! (via Laughing Squid)
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Image: Basic Math Is Super Hard You Guiz
I would weep for the future but my tears are on strike from this stupidity. If we're being honest, it took a minute for me to remember you always divide and multiply before you add and subtract.
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24oz Venti Iced Coffees Are Good, Deal
Summer is almost here! Is there anything more enjoyable than a Venti Iced Coffee in the hot summer months? (Warning: math content ahead.) ::UPDATED::
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Children’s Story Mathematics
Culture Buzz I've never had math so awesome/childhood ruined quite like this before. (Via here for educational Nova Scotian (That's in Canada, folks) toystore Brain Candy)
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Image: Glee Is Not Very Good At Math
It's a good thing Mr. Schue is a Spanish teacher, or else he'd be out of a job.
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Image: People just slightly more interested in performing arithmetic than Tumblr
I find both adding fractions and navigating Tumblr pretty basic, I must be a genius. Also, apparently people still write letters - probably mostly to people in jail.
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Musicians By The Numbers
Celebrity Buzz A series of graphs from The Daily that mathematically break down popular musicians into individual components. Did you know Radiohead is 10% back issues of Wired? Or Justin Bieber is 26% completely benign dreaminess? You probably knew the Black Eyed Peas are 17% corporate sponsorships, though.
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Link: Math Movie Quiz
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/21/math-movie-quiz/
Can you figure out what movie each of these mathematical equations represents? I couldn’t.
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Image: Can You Figure Out These Movie Titles?
Math nerds! Help!!! This is really hard and fun. Make yourself useful for once! (Spiked Math, via TDW Geeks)
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Video: How To Snakes
Snake snake snake snake snake snake. The girl who used math doodles returns with more accidental learning.
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Image: The Paper Staple
I don't know why the teacher was so upset. This shows ingenuity and gumption. Plus, it's entirely recyclable. Laziness saves the planet yet again.
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Video: Interactive YouTube Brain Game
Garden Mind presents the World's First Interactive YouTube Brain Game. Answering each brain teaser challenge leads you to the next question. Can you score 5 out of 5?
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Image: Know Your Logical Proofs
I never learned this kind of logic in Geometry. If you look at these proofs, then you will be informed. Therefore, do it!
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