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

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

Animal Crackers for Zoologists

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

Lunar eclipse | By Johannes van Keulen, 1739.

january this january that

FIO ERGO SUM - The emergence of reality, and the hidden order of chaos

I thought about how I could insert the titles and tiny captions in an interesting way - and well, those old PC windows gathered my interest.

it's called "maths" instead of "math" because it's called "mathematics" instead of "mathematic"