beetle

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[lilou-the-world-builder]

[nxvala]

excited for duo or die if it isnt obvious

[overoverkill]

i feel like nothing is happening in mcsr this month ... can we bring back im talkingmime as the song of the summer or something

[overoverkill]

im talkingmime im talkingmiimeeee

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[venmotif]

rose rosebeams 🌹

[starlightomatic]

i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology

[starlightomatic]

this is about google’s ai overview

[finnglas]

gonna be real i thought this was just about normal microwaves

[beetle020]

love getting these notifications from being a feinberg sucks editor

[pardalote]

It's been a while since I bombarded you all with a swarm of beetle photos. So here are some beetles I've stitched, including some little peeks under 'the hood'. :D

[kata4a]

algebra for age regressors

[kata4a]

do you see my vision?

[synoddiane]

[janmusija]

here's my shitty low effort contribution that I sketched up while bored. any reader should feel free to improve this

[shocked--kwarrtz]

Sheafification of G (who is a really excellent math youtuber) sometimes opens his videos with "ladies, gentlemen, and the classically excluded middle," which is such a good bit that it honestly makes me kind of mad

[coppersunflower]

redraw of painting im sorry i forgot how to spell artists name ill edit this later

original

[aforest2006remaster]

yesterday i made a beetle out of soda tabs and wire. we took the bus home.

[clementine-kesh]

i read an interview with a mathematician recently where she talks about the commonalities between math and literature and the idea that playfulness is a key part of doing both of those things. there’s a lot of fun to be had in turning a concept over and over, finding novel ways to look at it or combine it with other things, and i think that idea of playfulness also applies to analysis + critique. looking at a story through different lenses to see what new insights you can gain, reading intertexts and learning about the context in which it was created. finding a new bit of theory and saying hey wait a minute, i can use this to talk about [insert favourite media here]! it’s fun!

[clementine-kesh]

if i can get on my professional educator soapbox for a moment i think the reason a lot of people struggle with the idea that analysis and critique can be fun is that our education system in general is not designed to make the intellectual process seem particularly fun, or like something that can be approached in a playful manner (see also: the mathematician’s lament). thinking deeply about things for the sake of thinking deeply about things seems ridiculous because it’s associated with the stress of grades and too much homework and general bad pedagogy. it creates a lack of confidence in one’s own intellectual abilities that makes even the act of trying seem like too much. and it’s not at all impossible to grow past this and find the fun in the intellectual process but you do have to push past a lot of that fear and anxiety first

[clementine-kesh]

here’s the original article as well as a mathematician’s lament

[beetle020]

hai beetle! im doing doodles of runners with their pride flags. do you know which one rosebeams uses?

yayay pride rosebeams art :D

[megamanfrommegaman]

I hope Rose wins

[mathematikerin-freyja]

Surely naming this "basic" is meant as a direct attack on the self-esteem of the reader.....

[mcsryaoihell]

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