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To get better at math, act like someone who loves math

Miles Kimball, Quartz If the “love it and learn it” hypothesis is true, it gives a simple recommendation for someone who wants to get ...

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“An equation has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God”

“In the West, there was an old debate as to whether mathematical reality was made by mathematicians or, existing independently, was merel...

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Restrictions Birth Creativity

Human laws are flexible, subject to repeal and renegotiation. The drinking age is 21 in the US, 18 in Britain, 16 in Cuba, “nev...

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The Importance of Rice

Like wheat, rice belongs to the grass family, the Poaceae, and it looks similarly unpromising as a food – yet it’s become one o...

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Sen Bir Ermeni Ben Bir Ermeni

Gece geç vakit Rostov’da bir birahanenin önünden geçiyordum. İçeride beyaz üniformalı bir garson gördüm. Ermeni’ ydi besbelli. K...

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'Aptallığı Görmek ve Artık Tahammül Edememek Ona'

Sevgili Felipe sahilde sakin bir köşedeyim, denize bakan dağların eteğinde; hiç kimse tanımıyor beni burada ve Allaha şükür...

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Exit West

It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening clas...

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Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism

Josh Jones, Open Culture At least when I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the Third Reich came to power in the ear...

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Puzzles and Figures: Problem 60: How many cats? http://puzzlesandfigures.blogspot.com/2018/07/problem-60-how-many-cats.html?spref=tw

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America's Population Before Columbus

On May 30, 1539, Hernando de Soto landed his private army near Tampa Bay, in Florida. Soto, as he was called, was a novel figure: half wa...

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Rich Tasks 13: Sagrada Familia "Magic" Square

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia is a Roman Catholic Church which is under construction since 1882. In front of the unfini...

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The Stone on the Grave of Diophantus

The gods granted him childhood for a sixth of his life, and a twelfth for his adolescence. A barren marriage took up a seventh of...

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Loving Math

Manil Suri, The New York Times Each time I hear someone say, “ Do the math ,” I grit my teeth. Invariably a reference to something mund...

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Crucially, freeze-frame gags provided opportunities for the mathematical writers on The Simpsons to throw in some references that ...

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Aldous mu Yoksa Orwell mi Haklı Çıktı?

Aldous Huxley ‘in “ Cesur Yeni Dünya “ sı George Orwell ‘ın “ 1984 “ünden yaklaşık 17 yıl önce basılmış bir kitap; hatta Orwell’ın Hux...

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İnsanların destelerce doğup düzinelerce öldüğü topraklar

“Zayıf adamı gömdüğüm noktaya bakıyor ve bir ailesi var mıdır, diye soruyordum kendime. Her ne kadar yanıtını bilsem de! Çünkü öyle bir y...

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Styles, Abilities and Multiple Intelligences

Research by cognitive scientists into the differences among students can shed light on this question, but before I get into that researc...