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Sometimes I stand in bookstores and libraries and could almost weep with awesome joy at the splendor of the human spirit lying in innumerable volumes around me. The variety, the splendid creativity, the passion of the human experience is a staggering thing.

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Many of you saw this when I originally posted it a few months ago, and it was incredibly popular. However, we have a lot of new people and I thought they might want to see it, as well. Dyslexia is often accompanied by other conditions such as ADHD, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and dyspraxia.

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The Pyramids of Egypt photographed from the International Space Station, July 26, 2012. Amazing, no?

(NASA)

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Visualisation of prime numbers

AKA Ulam spirals.

The Ulam spiral or prime spiral (discovered by the mathematician Stanislaw Ulam in 1963) is a simple method of visualising the prime numbers that reveals the apparent tendency of certain quadratic polynomials to generate unusually large numbers of primes.

Ulam created this spiral by first writing positive integers in a spiral as shown below:

He then circled only the prime numbers:

As seen above the odd prime numbers(i.e. all prime numbers except 2) tended to link in diagonal lines.

It has since been proven that this holds true even for large numbers.

Above is an ulam spiral from the number 1 to 160,000, where each number is a pixel.

Tests so far confirm that there are diagonal lines even when many numbers are plotted. The pattern also seems to appear even if the number at the center is not 1 (and can, in fact, be much larger than 1). This implies that there are many integer constants b and c such that the function:

f(n)=4n^{2}+bn+c

Where n = {1,2,3,4…..}

Personal note: I do not know the use of this. If anyone does, feel free to let me know. But I just thought it was kind of cool.

If you want to read more about this, I found a pretty cool site where this guy goes into this subject with a more computerised approach: http://ulamspiral.com/generatePage.asp?ID=1

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In 2017, text your mother back. Tell your little sister that you love her. Say “hello” to the person behind you at the store. Tell someone that they look beautiful at least once a day. Pay the toll price for the person behind you. Buy someone a cup of coffee if they have a rough day. This year, be the kindness that you want to see.

c.a.m (via thenorthsouth)

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“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”

-Stephen Hawking, Astrophysicist

Image credit: Jaxson Pohlman (instagram @jaxsonpohlmanphotography)

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

J.L. Borges

Parts of the Leaf rubbing #montessori botany

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The reason for the profound differences lies deep inside the brain.

FANTASTIC article - essential read!

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Perfect silence can only be obtained if all those present are willing. A single person can break it. Success therefore depends on conscious and united action. From this comes a sense of social solidarity.

Maria Montessori (via baandek)

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The complete ‘Women Who Changed Science - And The World" collection in honor of the 95th Women’s Equality Day.

Purchase Here!

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If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

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baandek

In order to begin the task of reconstructing man’s psyche, we must make the child our point of departure. We must recognize that he is more than just our progeny, more than just a creature who is our greatest responsibility. We must study him not as a dependent creature, but as an independent person.… We must have faith in the child as a messiah, as a savior capable of regenerating the human race and society.

Maria Montessori (via baandek)