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"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers,..."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:24:53 -0400

“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”

- Dalai Lama (via qoldlush)

"You make loving fun."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:19:09 -0400

“You make loving fun.”

Weisman Art Museum

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:06:10 -0400

Weisman Art Museum

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:39:09 -0400

“Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via helloinblack)

THANK YOU!

(via blackspartacus)

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:36:44 -0400

They say that 1 in 3 people is Chinese. I’m not, so one of my brothers must be. It could be...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:55:34 -0400

They say that 1 in 3 people is Chinese. I’m not, so one of my brothers must be. It could be Chun Lee, or Steve. I think it’s Steve.

Abandoned 123 year old school - Imgur

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:48:56 -0400

Abandoned 123 year old school - Imgur

flawhs: i’m a strong believer that not everything you do needs an explanation. if you want a...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:54:29 -0400

flawhs:

i’m a strong believer that not everything you do needs an explanation. if you want a tattoo, get one. if you rather stay home that night, it’s okay to miss that party. don’t forget that you’re living for yourself. you don’t owe anyone an explanation for your choices or preferences.

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Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:42:13 -0400

I instagram because I have no talent.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:41:44 -0400

I instagram because I have no talent.

kateoplis: “You are, at once, both the quiet and the confusion...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:11:52 -0400

kateoplis:

“You are, at once, both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”

— Kafka

"Someday, someone is going to look at you like you’re the best thing in the world"

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:31:50 -0400

“Someday, someone is going to look at you like you’re the best thing in the world”

- (via coconutcaves)

#selfie long day

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:24:47 -0400

#selfie long day

kateoplis: International Space Station passing over Crater...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:52:05 -0400

kateoplis:

International Space Station passing over Crater Lake (video) by Brad Goldpaint

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Sun, 02 Jun 2013 15:41:45 -0400

romancingthelookyloos: math-is-beautiful: scientiststhesis: dr...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:32:30 -0400

romancingthelookyloos:

math-is-beautiful:

scientiststhesis:

dr-archeville:

8bitstickmod:

nightguardmod:

songoharotto:

fabricated-amity:

my entire math life

This is basically the problem with the entire modern educational system.

Time to do unpopular opinion? Time to do unpopular opinion.

Balancing a checkbook is applied addition and subtraction, stuff of the third grade. Okay, yeah, it is a failure of the modern educational system if he hasn’t learned it by now.

Imaginary numbers interact with real numbers (1, 2, π, 1.5, etc) for complex numbers, and are useful if you want to get into engineering or science — you know, high paying jobs.

Remember Tomb Raider? How they make her turn? Quaternions, which use THREE sets of imaginary numbers.

Like how your cell phone gets reception? That requires resonance, the understanding of which can be aided by complex numbers.

And don’t even get me started in the more exotic physics like fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics. That is, the forefront of how planes fly and how computer chips work.

There’s this term, innumeracy, that is to math what illiteracy is to english. One thing that bugs me is when ignorance is paraded about, when one acts as if math is an optional knowledge. Doubly so when it’s the very thing holding them back.

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Thank you maths side of tumblr

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Come to think of it, that’s applicable to how a lot of subjects are taught.

But I’m afraid maths gets the worst of it, really. I mean, how often have you heard people complaining about history? Social sciences? Even chemistry, which is more specialised than maths? No, maths gets the worst of it by far, and everyone demonises it because no one ever tells them that maths is a language, and a quite difficult one at that, because it’s the language of the Universe (of god, if you will).

Not only that, but it’s also the only language that’s truly universal (we’re certain aliens will arrive at the same maths we have) and that can truly explain everything that’s in principle conceivable. Human language can describe the stuff we see, and some extrapolations we imagine; maths can describe everything that is, was, will be, has never been, and could ever be.

Everything is maths.

Exactly. You don’t like math? I guess I’ll have to accept that. You think math is stupid and useless? You are so, so wrong. Math is a language we use all across the world. Math is a language we use to understand the world around us. Math is a language so universal that we can use it to communicate with the particles that make up the universe.

I am very tired of seeing math hate, but that I can tolerate that. But you know what I won’t tolerate? People proclaiming math useless. People being so proud of their mathematical illiteracy, of their innumeracy. Because that isn’t right.

Everything we have comes down to mathematics.

Cady Heron said it all.

"One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love, and they hug you back even..."

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:21:16 -0400

“One of the best feelings in the world is when you hug someone you love, and they hug you back even tighter.”

- Unknown (via zodiaccity)

#minneapolis #downtown Long bike ride (at Heritage Trail)

Thu, 30 May 2013 21:54:05 -0400

#minneapolis #downtown Long bike ride (at Heritage Trail)

In 1984 world population was only 4.4 billion.

Thu, 30 May 2013 16:31:00 -0400

In 1984 world population was only 4.4 billion.

Sunrise on a nameless lake - Imgur

Tue, 28 May 2013 23:05:38 -0400

Sunrise on a nameless lake - Imgur