December 2010
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2 + 2 = 5 →
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The phrase “two plus two equals five” (“2 + 2 = 5”) is a slogan used in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one must believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in the novel. (via Larson)
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- Me: Say I'm walking North at about.. erhm... three feet per second. I'm slow. And you're walking South at maybe five/six feet per second because your legs are legitimately three feet long because you're a giant. You are 500 feet due east of me. What I'm doing in my Calculus class is trying find the 'rate of change' of the distance between you and I at a specific moment in time, especially the further and further we get apart. Sound cool?
- Ryan: .....
- Ryan: I just want to know when we'll be back together again.
November 2010
91 posts
universal order to my madness: I Give Thanks for Science →
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(Conducted in 2009)
For those who are fortunate enough to have Mr. David Stigant as your mathematics teacher, you might of heard of his sinister plan: test out a pomegranate-glazed turkey to see if Newton’s Laws of Cooling hold true.
I have conducted a similar experiment. My meat of choice,…
