I Changed My Mind Guys Whatever's Wrong With Me Really Is Special And There Is No True Diagnosis For

Lunar eclipse | By Johannes van Keulen, 1739.

The urge to learn every language and play every instrument and travel the world and live through every historical time period and be a writer and a poet and an actor and

system of mathematical notation where concatenation always means multiplication and each prime number has a unique one digit symbol. so counting to ten looks like "2, 3, 22, 5, 23, 7, 222, 33, 25". the advantages of this system would be making multiplication and division trivial, as well as accurately representing the true form and identity of every positive integer according to the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. the disadvantages to this system would be everything

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

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but! we! cannot! simply! sit! and! stare! at! our! wounds! forever!

Émilie Lévy & Louis Français

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 24 VIII 2023

what kind of music do you guys like to listen to when you’re doing physics or mathematics homework? i need recommendations :)

sciencetists conjecture a "island of stability" at around 15-16 standard cups of coffee