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When Donald Trump gazes into the crystal ball and tweets his prediction or prophecy of the future—for example, “Mexico will pay for the wall!” and “Iran will restore diplomatic ties with the US.”
What percentage of the predictions of Trumpstradamus have turned out to be true? Or is he just another politician-turned-astrologer trying his luck at divining the rise and fall of his critics?
by MathPlus October 29, 2018
Get the Trumpstradamusmug. When unlicensed businesses illegally produce sub-standard face masks, or repackage and rebrand imported masks in unhygienic or unsanitary conditions—users may experience skin irritation and respiratory symptoms.
In Singapore, mask mafias, if caught and convicted, may be jailed for up to two years or fined up to $50,000, or both.
by MathPlus June 15, 2021
Get the Mask Mafiamug. The slogan by math educators for their pseudoscientific or conspiracist audience, who argue that mask wearing or social distancing is ineffective in protecting them and others, especially for those who now have a certain degree of immunity after recovering from Covid-19.
Pastors tell their congregations: “no mask, no mass”; principals tell their classes: “no mask, no math.”
by MathPlus November 27, 2020
Get the No Mask, No Mathmug. When you irresponsibly or prematurely walk away from a math test or exam, instead of waiting until the end of the paper, when everyone is allowed to leave the room, because you can’t handle the difficult or brain-unfriendly questions, especially after boasting to the whole world that you have a “genius IQ.“
During the 60-minute math test the other day, everybody was surprised to see Don do a math trump, who consoled himself that he could always pay a Shapiro to sit for his SAT if he failed again.
by MathPlus October 27, 2020
Get the Do a Math Trumpmug. The Brazilian strand of Trumpvirus, which is deadlier than the coronavirus itself—named after President Jair Bolsonaro, whose fake leadership and ineptitude had failed to contain the pandemic crisis, which he continues to downplay in spite of the rising death toll.
With more than a quarter million corona deaths, which is the second-highest number of fatalities in the world after the US, Brazil is fighting two viruses: the coronavirus and Bolsonaro virus.
by MathPlus March 5, 2021
Get the Bolsonaro Virusmug. A math theorem whose real-life application may be worth at least a billion bucks—a revolutionary result that could propel the applied mathematician into mathematical fame or immortality.
The Riemann hypothesis is a potential mathematical unicorn , especially in the field of e-security—whoever proves it is guaranteed both fame and wealth.
by MathPlus August 19, 2017
Get the Mathematical Unicornmug. Short for “Vegan Math.” Math titles that indirectly promote a vegan lifestyle, by having zero questions on diary products like meat and milk, and excluding any brain-unfriendly chickens-and-rabbits and eggs word problems.
Math publishers are pressuring their meat-eating textbook authors for a V Math edition, by replacing questions on eggs, chocolate bars, and the like with non-diary products to target the millions of students and teachers with a vegan or vegetarian diet worldwide.
by MathPlus February 16, 2021
Get the V Mathmug.