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Things We Saw Today: Movie Titles Expressed With Math Equations
At Spiked Math. A flash drive harmonica, at Design You Trust. Cadbury deviled eggs recipe, at Serious Eats. Chocolate legos, at Cutest Food. Someone’s terminator leg, at Reddit. Space Invaders...
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Things We Saw Today: O_o Cat
Proof that cats read the Internet and are very disturbed by how much of them are on it. (At Geeks Are Sexy) A 1992 book called The Making of a Fly by Peter Lawrence is apparently amazing. So amazing...
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Female Scientists and Mathematicians: You Are Not Alone
From xkcd, supplemental materials behind the jump. This is Emmy Noether: And this is Lise Meitner: And now we feel properly educated for the morning.
View ArticleAre There Any Songs Left?
We might simply be geeks here at The Mary Sue, but some of us are also band geeks, and to that end we are enormous music nerds. The science and math hidden in the study of music really turns our nerd...
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ThinkGeek Has The Answer to Manufacturers Who Make Anti-Math Shirts for Girls...
Of course they do. Our favorite part: “You know what we’re too pretty for? Putting up with anti-intellectualism,” a clear reference to JC Penney’s recalled-due-to-backlash t-shirt from this summer....
View ArticleViHart on Spirals and Fibonacci Numbers. Also Slug-cats
Just a little math for the holidays, with part two promised soon. ViHart schools us on the mysterious mathematical properties of nature. Previously in ViHart Videos How Music Works Snake Snake Snake...
View ArticleThe Hidden Secrets of Fruit by the Foot
At first I was like: “I should hold of on posting another ViHart video, we’ve been doing a lot of her stuff lately and I don’t want people to get tired of it.” Then I watched it and was like: “HOLY...
View ArticleViHart Explains Why .999… =/= 1 [April Fools]
Okay, here’s our only concession to April Fools day, a brain busting attempt to pull the wool over our eyes by Mathematics and Felt Tipped Markers’ own ViHart. If you’d like to see the real reasons...
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Things We Saw Today: A Unicorn Cupcake!
How — how, I ask you — is anyone supposed to eat this? (via Geeks Are Sexy) Best way to prank on your sleeping cat, by far, is to cover him or her with dinosaurs. A picture made for the internet....
View ArticleVi Hart’s Mathematical, Musical Doodles [Video]
Musical/mathematical artist Vi Hart has put together a meditative and lovely video featuring math-inspired doodles and music. Parts of it sound like they could be in a yoga session, in a good way....
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Good News: The Amazing Spider-Man is Scientifically Accurate
If you’re looking forward to The Amazing Spider-Man for the math, I have good news. It’s accurate. University of Minnesota physics professor Jim Kakalios was the official science consultant on the...
View ArticleApproved Distraction: Make a Hexaflexagon
If I’d known about these in high school, it would have significantly expanded my paper plaything repertoire of origami frogs, goldfish, and fortune tellers. Educate yourself. Are you following The...
View ArticleFood for Thought: ViHart Shows Us an Amazing Mathematical Tortilla
ViHart shows us all how to make a hexafelxagon burrito. Either I’m hungry, or this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Or both. Look, if you’re not going to eat the edges of that tortilla, can I?...
View ArticleInsert Math Into Your Thanksgiving Meal Equation [VIDEO]
We all know cooking requires math (unless you’re my mother, in which case it’s “ohh, about this much salt, that much flour”) but have you ever thought of creating a meal revolving around math?...
View ArticleA Mathematical Examination of Paper Snowflakes and the Creation Thereof
‘Twas a week before Christmas, and all through the blog, This writer was too tired to make a properly scanning monologue. Enjoy ViHart instead.
View ArticleThings You Didn’t Know You Could do With Inflatable Balls, a ViHart Video
New, mathematically valid decorating idea! Previously in Vi Hart Thanksgiving Burritos Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?
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When Math, Science, and Embroidery Get Together, We All Win
Enable JavaScript to check out our fancy slideshow. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Can you recognize this just from looking at it? If you can, high five, because I got it too. It’s an embroidery design inspired by...
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According to Math, the Worst Color Shirt to Wear on Star Trek Is Actually Yellow
It’s a well known maxim that nobody wants to be a redshirt on Star Trek: The Original Series. The proud members of Operations, Engineering, and Security are the space-expendables, the first line of...
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Things We Saw Today: If Jurassic Park Were an ’80s Movie
“Dino droppings? Rad!” By Tyler Jacobs, via Geeks are Sexy. The Frisky tells us about Fallon Fox, a six-year veteran of Mixed Martial Arts who has recently come out of the closet (against her wishes)...
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Nerd Girl With Amazing Sense of Humor Takes her Calculator to Prom
Enable JavaScript to check out our fancy slideshow. 1. 2.'Obligatory Outdoor Photo' 3.'He brought me flowers.' 4.ISILU Would Have it Know that His Tuxedo Was Made of Finest Imported Silk 5.They even...
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