A Girl Dressed Her Calculator In An Adorable Tux And Took It To Prom

Going to prom with a human is totally played out, anyways.

Ryan Broderick a month ago 209 responses

Is It Possible To Eat This Bar Of Chocolate Forever?

No. No, of course it’s not possible. Are you crazy?

Ryan Broderick 2 months ago 50 responses

Anything Is Possible With Pi

That’s right, on Pi Day, anything is possible…in a way.

Sean Curry 3 months ago 30 responses

18 Reasons Why "Math Blaster" Was The Best Way To Learn Math

If your parents liked making you learn more than you liked playing videogames, then you played Math Blaster. And sometimes, it actually made you forget you were learning.

Sean Curry 3 months ago 56 responses

18 Ridiculous Things In Textbooks That Will Make You Shake Your Head

By putting weird stuff in textbooks, learning can be more “fun” and “relevant” or something.

Hunter Schwarz 5 months ago 411 responses

Science Proves That Notre Dame Was The Luckiest Team In The Country

Well, our creative interpretation of science, at least. Undefeated Ohio State had some pretty good fortune as well.

Nicholas Schwartz 6 months ago 5 responses

11 Awesome Math Foods

The Möbius bagel isn’t the only edible expression of human genius to grace the Internet. And thank goodness.

Allison McCann 7 months ago 15 responses

7 Satellite Photos That Look Like Math

Mathematician Paul Bourke collects satellite photos that look like fractals. It turns out, Earth looks kind of crazy.

Russell Brandom 8 months ago 27 responses

Ryan Challenged On Lack Of Specifics At Town Hall

At a town hall in Clinton, IA, Ryan says it takes him 5 minutes to explain specifics — far more than the 30 second soundbite he says was offered to him on Fox News Sunday.

Zeke Miller 8 months ago 13 responses

"Hunger Games" For Math Nerds

And you thought you’d never use Venn Diagrams again. Katniss doesn’t care about the things she says she cares about.

Donna Dickens 9 months ago 52 responses

Harry Reid Slams Paul Ryan For Marathon Embellishment

The Senate majority leader slammed “Ryan math” on the Senate floor today. He also applied the formula to his own marathon times.

Andrew Kaczynski 9 months ago 5 responses

Clevelanders Can’t Do Math

I grew up there, so I know they have schools, but you wouldn’t know it from this.

Jack Moore 9 months ago 26 responses

Danica McKellar Wants Girls To Know They’re Good At Math

Despite women earning more degrees than men, men outnumber women in the field of math by an alarming degree. A former Wonder Years star is on a mission to make young women know they’re just as good at math as their male counterparts.

Amy Odell 10 months ago 45 responses

Girls’ Anxiety About Math Could Be Hurting Their Futures

The girls in a new study didn’t do any worse at math than the boys. But they were more anxious about it — which could have implications down the line.

Anna North 11 months ago respond

The Mathematically Correct Way To Cut A Bagel

One Möbius bagel, please. Extra cream cheese. Good luck explaining this to the guy behind the counter at Bruegger’s.

John Herrman 11 months ago 117 responses

PSA Shows Us A World Without Math

Damn math, why you gotta be so crucial to all aspects of civilization? There are millions of kids who’d love to be able to complain about how hard geometry is. Let’s help them.

Donna Dickens 11 months ago 17 responses

Robert Downey Jr. Is An Excellent Math Teacher

Forgot your times tables? RDJ is here to help. (via vulture.com)

Keenan Roberts a year ago 74 responses

This Is The Perfect Face

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.

Gavon Laessig a year ago 79 responses

Happiness Can Be Measured With Cats

This is more a science post than a cat post, but learning is important, so. (via thefrogman.me)

Every Day Is Caturday a year ago 150 responses

4-D App Will Give You The Best Kind Of Headache

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.

John Herrman a year ago 10 responses

5 Ways To Beat Old-School Games Using Math on cracked.com ›

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.

Cracked a year ago respond

Pop Culture Math

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.

Ash a year ago 99 responses

Leap Year Explained

Hey, who put an extra day in my February? Silly universe, why don’t you adhere to the mathematics of man?

Donna Dickens a year ago 77 responses

Penis Size Math

The Internet: Where the absurd meets the scientific to create the wildly offensive. God bless it. (via reddit.com) View Image ›

Jimbo Duggins a year ago 269 responses

Courtney Love On Mathematics, Crack Cocaine

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.

Gavon Laessig a year ago 46 responses

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?

ebaumsworld a year ago 63 responses

This Guy Is The Coolest Math Teacher Ever

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.

hgrant a year ago 170 responses

Does Biology Explain Why There Are Few Women In Computer Science?

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) View List ›

Ashley Baccam a year ago 33 responses

Batman Math

Genius. I’m no mathematician, does anyone know if this is correct? View Image ›

BurnRed a year ago 100 responses