Tag: math
Scripturient: Decades, centuries and millennia
January 1 is NOT the start of a new decade. To the CBC and the other arithmetically-challenged media who insist otherwise: it isn’t. You just don’t understand how to count to 10. No matter how you spin it, 9 years is not 10. And even if it was, starting or
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Dzhanibekov Effect – Veritasium
Some of the mechanics rotating bodies in motion, explained well in the video. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: TransWidow Repost – Sex and the Mathematics of a Binary
Posted on July 12, 2019 by thetranswidow Sex and the Mathematics of a Binary So much debate around whether sex is a binary or a spectrum. The thing is, a binary is a mathematical thing. And there isn’t any need to debate mathematical things. They are easy to prove. I’m
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: What is a Fourier Series?
More reasons why Math is cool and concomitantly, why oh why don’t we get to do cool things like this in school.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Banch-Tarski Paradox – 30 Minutes of Deliciously Broken Brain.
This is great stuff.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Math – The Josephus Problem
Not a big fan of math, but it’s certainly neat to watch the thought processes.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Golden Ratio – Why is it so Irrational?
The math we learn at school needs to be more like this, because it is describing natural phenomena in our world. It, to a certain extent, is familiar and at the same time mysterious enough to provoke one’s curiosity. With curiosity, learning gets darn right magical.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Bonus Musical Interlude with Vi Hart
Vi Hart is truly amazing. Awe inspiring yet accessible, sublime yet exciting, her videos are strange, wonderful, fun, educational, and so many other great things combined. Now it’s time to expand your mind with a delightful explanation and demonstration of Shepard Tones Filed under: Music Tagged: Illusions, Math, Music,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Another Bonus Musical Interlude with Vi Hart
Vi Hart is truly amazing. Awe inspiring yet accessible, sublime yet exciting, her videos are strange, wonderful, fun, educational, and so many other great things combined. Now it’s time to expand your mind with a delightful explanation and demonstration of Shepard Tones Filed under: Music Tagged: Illusions, Math, Music,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bonus Musical Interlude with ViHart
I saw this today and I had to put it up. Enjoy some history, some math, some copywrite commentary, and some wonderful music, all delightfully wrapped together by the fantastic ViHart. Enjoy! Filed under: Music Tagged: Happy Birthday, Math, Music, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude, Vi Hart
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Carbon Energy Is Dead, Wake Up?
The math is so easy. So why is BC ramping up coal and LNG production? STOP THEM! It really doesn’t get any simpler than this. Climate realities mean not ignoring science. Here’s some math. Let’s get off the coal, oil and gas. Click on the image for more enlightenment!
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: 1,000,000 and $14, two numbers, two politics
This week’s podcast focuses on two numbers, one million and fourteen, that draw out some interesting links between economics and politics in Ontario and beyond. https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/podcast-140606-ontario.mp3 One million is the number of jobs that Tim Hudak has promised to create in Ontario if elected next week. This one million claim has
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Brussels Sprouts – Numberphile
Yet another reason to be wary of Mathematicians. Filed under: Science Tagged: Brussels Sprouts, Math, Sneaky
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Aristotle contra the math stick: Magic numbers redux
In the last post I explored how magic numbers, such as a 90% debt-to-GDP ratio or a 2% inflation target, at once over-simplify and stifle economic policy debate. The role of magic numbers raises more general questions about “the rule of number” in economics. The math stick used to browbeat those
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Dragons Scales – Logarithms in Math Class
The more I hear about math post schooling, the more interesting it becomes. As a teacher, I’m a bit perplexed as throughout my checkered math learning career all of this cool stuff remained unmentioned. All I remember is the misery and frustration of learning largely esoteric shite, that once ‘mastered’
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Parenting Level: 100
I’d love to see her take on Barbie. Alltop can take itself too humorously sometimes…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fantastic, The Wretched and The “Oh F*ck, No”
Sometimes “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” just isn’t strong enough. In one of my recent youtube sessions I ran quite the emotional gamut. Let’s start on a high note, shall we? The Fantastic First we have a long overdue “Hero of the Day”. For quite some time, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Splork goes my Brain – Zeno’s Paradox
The people over at the numberphile channel have a knack for explaining interesting mathematical concepts and this is one of the better explanations of what some of Zeno’s Paradoxes are and how we “solve” them. Filed under: Science Tagged: Math, Numberphile, Science
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Future History: Wall Street Wiles
Excerpt from the Brainipedia mentograph entry on Wall Street, circa 2020: It wasn’t until the early years of the 2020s that our pre-singularity hominid ancestors realized they should not allow their best and brightest minds to go into the financial … Continue reading →
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