Informational Articles That Sound Like Poetry… Source For The First One (sciencing.com)

the essential dykes to watch out for

All Souls Library; University of Oxford

I tried to recreate this feeling I had while lying in the sun yesterday.

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it is so crazy that two guys just happened to separately invent calculus at the same time if I was gottfried wilhelm leibniz I would be pissed off beyond belief and I'd also probably try to kill isaac newton in his sleep

math rant, sorry

i genuinely think that math hating is a learned social behavior. you have to hate it to be relatable, otherwise you're a nerd - and not the eccentric fun kind of science nerd. also there is this assumption that if you're not naturally good at it, you shouldn't even try, which doesn't really exist for other subjects. like, students won't mind writing an essay, or doing arts, even if they're not amazing at it, but doing math when they might fail is somehow torture.

all these memes like "pythagoras is useless irl" and "satan put the alphabet in math" read to me like "the curtains were blue cause they were blue!!>:(" bs, but receive way less criticism online. do people even agree with the memes, or is it just herd mentality? cause honestly, why is math more useless than anything else we learn in school? why is saying "x-2=4" more evil than saying "what minus two equals four"?

of course, math people with low self esteem and condescending auras are also to blame for making math unappealing, as well as math teachers with no social skills lol. but the overall meme-ability of math hating sure is not helping, cause kids go into school with the expectation that math will be hard and they won't enjoy it

winter grace by Patricia Fargnoli

“Synaptic Overload” All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. (Otto Weininger) Inspired by David Lynch’s photo series “Industrial Motives”. Taken at the main station, Cologne (Germany). CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

give me a world you have taken the world i was tuesday

“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”

— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)