January 2012
20 posts
1 tag
“Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would...”
– A math question on a test at a Georgia school (via iseriaqueen)
Hey I have one..
If white people enslaved black people for 500 years and paid them nothing for their contribution to the country, how much does America owe Black Americans today?
I’ll wait.
(via howtobenoladarling)
If white...
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December 2011
26 posts
3 tags
On July 29th, 2011, the US Treasury Department showed that the United States had an operating cash balance of $73.3 billion USD.
At the time, Apple’s recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4 billion USD.
Apple has more money than the United States government.
(via BBC)
♥ on Ti-84
smohworld:
Isomorphismes: Things I've written that are meant... →
isomorphismes:
Er, this is probably too late for most of the students revising for exams. Sorry, I forgot that happens this time of year. I used to be a good teacher, I swear!
If it isn’t too late, I hope these short posts make useful study aids:
How to multiply matrices.
Determinant of a matrix…
Proof: isomorphismes: A beautiful depiction of a... →
isomorphismes:
A beautiful depiction of a 1-form by Robert Ghrist. You never thought understanding a 1→1-dimensional ODE would be so easy!
What his drawing makes obvious, is that images of Phase Space wear a totally different meaning than “up”, “down”, “left”, “right”. In this…
“By 2050, with a projected population of 10 billion people and without a change...”
– Earth’s Systems in Rapid Decline (via kateoplis)
Meanwhile: Debt-ceiling deal passes, wildlands, environment to suffer
(via freudianflips)
To put this in perspective a bit, if the world population lived like Americans do now, we would need 5 planet Earths to sustain consumption. Consumption...
November 2011
22 posts
