Pencil drawing of six characters representing vitamins, carbohydrates, water, protein, minerals, and fats)
For homework for Health class, my 11-year-old had to draw cartoon characters representing different nutrients. They're all amazing, but Queen Carbs is my favorite (both in art and in life).
from left to right: vitamins, carbohydrates, water, protein, minerals; fats at the bottom
Welcome to the only Pythagorean Triple day this century: 16/09/25. www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...
With the influx, I suppose I'll mention that I still check this account very occasionally. Work is busy, life is busy, and it's not a go-to social media. (Nor, to be clear, is Twitter.) Hoping to do another holiday song parody this year, we'll see if it happens.
A Reddit post featuring a children's rug with shape names around the border. Nearly all of the shape names are spelled incorrectly.
Ah yes, the hombus. A classic shape.
A quadratic function that generates primes. Will it keep generating primes forever? When will it stop? I explored prime-generating functions and ended up finding a sequence that wasn't in the OEIS - it is now! aperiodical.com/2024/05/prim...
Just to be clear, we don't think that people answering this way are actually under 30 or Hispanic.
It's that people giving inaccurate data on questions about submarines are also giving inaccurate data about their demographics, falsely claiming to belong to these groups.
Always suspected, but the data is a killer slowrevealgraphs.com/2024/04/25/l... #slowrevealgraph by @jennalaib.bsky.social
Here's a question, does anyone else out there remember MathNet growing up? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmW... (Is there anything out there like it today?)
Two new #slowrevealgraph additions!
- size of the world's population, with predictions through 2060 (geared towards HS, but could be done with younger students)
- nepo babies! what fields to fathers pass on the most advantage to their sons? (with an introduction to log scale)
slowrevealgraphs.com
You’d expect the rate at which newspapers eliminated jobs would taper off to exponential decay at some point, but no. They just keep firing people like they expect to go to 0 humans employed by 2030
Graph showing daily temperature anomaly hitting peak of 2.06°C on November 17th, 2023 for the time period starting from 1940 to 2023.
There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph.
November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.
This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI
The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/
It's fine, I know paradise is spelled with an 'S'. I'm all about rolling the dice and analyzing the statistics. (Not sure if d6 or d20.)
