It would be most enlightening if they were all showing on the same screen at the same time.
No Pi TIL: " When two cylinders of radius r meet at right angles, the volume of their intersection is 16r^3/3 — again, no sign of π. " [The "again" refers to the surprising expression for the white area in the illustration, as a function of radius a."] #TIL#Math
Students beginning with the compass learn to draw this rosette, sometimes called the Flower of Life. If the arcs and the circle have the same radius, a, then the area of one petal is and the unshaded ...
< 0.00001% ("Less than 1 in 10 Million") " The right-leaning Heritage Foundation’s database of confirmed fraud cases lists less than 100 examples of non-citizens voting between 2002 and 2022, amid more than one billion lawfully cast ballots " --Reported on CNN, via link below #CommonplaceBook
Claiming that noncitizens are voting is the latest form of election denial.
While the carbon-sequestration idea might be worthy, what amazes me is how NOT nearly 4,000 years old this log looks. (The key idea: noting that forests extract a remarkable amount of atmospheric CO2, delaying decay of the wood would slow return of CO2 to the atmosphere.) #SciComm
Figuring out ways of locking carbon out of the atmosphere, such as by burying wood, is key to stalling the worst consequences of climate change.
Thanks very much, Durty, for this interesting gloss. Now: to understand why *this* reference. Does it imply anything about "unseen" windows in the painting? Does it add meaning to the annunciation in some particular way?
Before I looked at comments, this was exactly the example I was thinking of giving. I wouldn't say the Busoni is "better", but it's musical, it's interesting, and I wouldn't say it's "worse".
I believe in statistics, I relied on them in my physics lab. But, statistics can be poisonous if one is not absolutely certain, and doubly clear in the analysis, about *exactly* what the statistic measures. Pollsters rarely do. I found nothing to quibble over in this essay, which is illuminating.
“Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago,” but polling is now the centerpiece of American politics, with “the media obsessing over each statistically insignificant blip”. Why do we pay so much attention to this bullshit? [prospect.org]
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?
A birthday superpower you may not be aware of: parking in DC is free for you, AND you suddenly understand parallel parking! Happeist of birthdays to you.
"The United States is an Enlightenment project based on the supremacy of reason; on the idea that things can be empirically tested; that there are self-evident truths; that liberty, progress and constitutional government walk arm in arm and together form the recipe for the ideal state."
How a country collects and interprets data reveals a lot about what it values.
TIL: "The Andorran heads of state are France’s Emmanuel Macron and Joan Enric Vives i Sicília, bishop of Urgell in Spain. Their official titles ares [sic] co-prince, likely making Macron the only person in the world who is both a president and a monarch." #TIL#ComminplaceBook#Reading
How a country collects and interprets data reveals a lot about what it values.