It's time to bind the St. John's Bible: The team originally "planned to secure the father of modern conservation binding, Christopher Clarkson, to bind the seven volumes of the Bible...His passing and [that] of Fr. Michael Patella...served as a wake-up call." saintjohnsbible.org/posts/2026/0...
ok but now I’m thinking about the curvature at infinity
A sign that reads “The Butterfly Project: The Award Winning Refugium for the Rarest Butterfly Species in the World, The Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly” Next to the sign is a giant painted butterfly labeled “Lange's metalmark”
A bathtub with a sign that says “WHY IS THERE A BATHTUB? Unfortunately, this is what “Happy” our American alligator was kept in before he came to America’s Teaching Zoo. … Since arriving at ATZ in 1995 he has regained his health, grown larger and shares his story that wild animals are not house pets!”
A trainer on a stage with a miniature horse
A student showing off a tortoise to an audience
More pictures from the Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College. The students get to show off some of the animals!
A reclining tiger
A tiger walking up a ramp
A bald eagle
A horned owl
Some pictures from the zoo
So thank goodness for community colleges. Check out what your local ones may offer beyond classes.
Then I went to the Moorpark College website and found that they still proudly declare their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s fundamental to their mission in a way that surpasses other, more prominent colleges. www.moorparkcollege.edu
They helped save an entire endangered species of butterfly! The Palos Verdes Blue Butterfly was thought to have been wiped out in the 80s, but a few dozen were rediscovered after a decade, and the Butterfly Project at the Zoo has raised over 4000.
An alligator has a compound with a bathtub on display nearby, because someone else thought it would be good to keep as a pet in that tub.
Overall, came away impressed by the work done at the Moorpark Zoo.
The lion, we were told, is on academic loan from the MGM casino in Vegas.
The tiger was kept as a pet and abused, and was rescued after the CA Big Cat Commission saw videos of the cub being forced to fight pit bulls on YouTube.
Family went to Moorpark College yesterday to visit their Teaching Zoo. Apart from being windy, it was a lovely afternoon. Got to see a tiger, a lion, and an owl close up.
But the origins of the animals are just as fascinating…
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The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
you do not need to wait for jesus to “come back.” dig through the rubble of any bombed out apartment complex, office building or, yes, girls’ school, and you’ll find him there, covered in dust.
If students can live with the ambiguity of English language spelling they can also live with ^-1 meaning inverse and sometimes meaning you go to the denominator and sometimes something else.
Sun and Moon, 1948 #opart #mcescher
Math history question: Is γ:[0,1]→X the notation for a path in a space X because
(1) γ is the third Greek letter ↔ Roman c which stands for curve;
(2) orthographically, γ — especially when handwritten — looks like a curve; or
(3) Cauchy chose it at random for a complex path integral and it stuck?
A diagram drawn on a wall, with boxed sequences of numbers connected by arrows
Sometimes you just have to work out an example. Good thing we have a wall covered with whiteboard paint.
Sounds like we should talk! This is an ongoing research project with undergraduates, which has drawn me far more into combinatorics than I had been previously. Here are slides from my student's talk at JMM this year (for which she won an Outstanding Speaker award!): drive.google.com/file/d/1cymb...
That would be interesting! This is using local data to record/reconstruct Hamiltonian cycles in circulant graphs (in this case, the family Ci_n(1,5)).
A diagram drawn on a wall, with boxed sequences of numbers connected by arrows
Sometimes you just have to work out an example. Good thing we have a wall covered with whiteboard paint.
This was S1E4 of Babylon 5, which we just watched last night.
From @hannahnpbowman.com: Hegseth is trying to bring about a Judgment Day that’s not going to go for him the way he expects.
Thread about AI in education
🌕➡️🔴 Lunar eclipse alert!
Depending on where you are (mostly: Central/Eastern Asia, Oceania, most of North/Central America), you may be able to see a TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE ("blood moon") overnight!
You can find information about timing and viewing locations here: www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/luna...
Comic from xkcd: “Significant” Scientists runs trials on 20 different colors of jelly beans to find out if they are linked to acne. From the twenty tests, one (green jelly beans, but the color doesn’t matter) are found to have a link with acne, because the result shows a p-value less than .05. News headline says “GREEN JELLY BEANS LINKED TO ACNE!” with 95% confidence and “only 5% chance of coincidence!”
Look! This LLM gave the correct answer to a question I asked!
This is a lot easier to do in Blender
Nought can Deform the Human Race
Like to the Armours iron brace
When Gold & Gems adorn the Plow
To peaceful Arts shall Envy Bow
—William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”
A tree is growing in a space surrounded by sidewalk. The portion of the root system that is above ground extends to the edge of the sidewalk; it has been carefully shaped to remain with the rectangular area allotted.
Insert obligatory square root joke here
Facts need a story.
Part of telling that story is deciding which facts to include, which to highlight, and which to ignore.
The truth can be gerrymandered by how you divide up the facts.
I never knew that stingrays get pregnant (I incorrectly assumed eggs), but they do. Their babies are called pups.
Thought you should know
