When you design your customer’s experience in such a way that it ends up on a high note—think of IKEA customers looking forward for their favorite hotdog after they have frustratingly lined up to the check-out counters.
To get the customers to return, apply the hotdog formula to your business: offer them something positive, which would make them forget about any inconveniences they’ve experienced—put them in a positive frame of mind at the end of their shopping trip.
by MathPlus July 26, 2018
Read as “Covid-beta.” Also known as the B.1.351 or “Beta” variant. The South African variant, which has been detected in at least 40-odd countries, is believed to evade antibodies, thus making recovered infected people despite their existing immunity prone to reinfection.
Insufficient data cannot conclude whether Covid-β causes more severe illness than earlier versions of the coronavirus, or whether current vaccines may be less effective for this variant, which may also be transmitted faster.
by MathPlus August 30, 2021
The nickname for Father Christmas, who would have a pretty good excuse this year to deliver zero toys to brainwashed kids who believe their parents that the coronavirus is just another seasonal flu that would go away by year end, and that wearing a face mask and practicing social distance is for the weaklings who just want to be politically correct.
For kids of thousands of QAnonists and diehard alt-right Trumpists, Santa Corona would give them a miss in 2020 as a “punishment” for putting their faith in conspiracies and falsehoods, propagated by no other by the Conspiracist-in-Chief, who would probably need to be escorted out on 1/20/21 for refusing to make way for the President-Elect.
by MathPlus December 01, 2020
An unethical “word doctor” who has no qualms divulging his company’s publishing secrets to the competitors to enhance his visibility or marketability, so that he can poached by them if he gets fired or retrenched.
Jack was dismissed within hours after his boss found out that he was leaking the company’s new titles to a key competitor, which had since recruited the rogue editor without questions.
by MathPlus August 07, 2018
When a self-anointed mortal claims to have received words of wisdom from their Creator to speak to mankind on the fate of the coronavirus—for example, what practical and spiritual actions (or inactions) they should take in the face of the pandemic crisis.
No one should doubt or question the messenger’s corona verses if they don’t want to incur the wrath of their Creator, who could deprive them of a place in paradise for their unbelief or unfaithfulness.
by MathPlus April 17, 2021
When opponents of Christianity are hell-bent to devaluing Jesus’ deity, the cross, and His power to forgive all sins, by telling others that Jesus is not the Son of God, but just one of the prophets in the Bible—the lie that their place in paradise is dependent on their good deeds and performing lifelong rituals on earth to an impersonal God rather than through their faith in Jesus’ grace alone and establishing a personal relationship with Him.
It’s not surprising that many religious leaders, who are not anti-God, but anti-Christ, wouldn’t want their followers to know that Jesus’ blood shed on the cross (and not the blood of bulls and goats) is able to forgive all their sins and cleanse them from all unrighteousness, and that through His grace (unmerited favor) by faith (and not through works and rites) that they have eternal life.
by MathPlus July 04, 2021
Short for “Pi Factoid.” Tidbits or juicy bits about the number π that seldom make it to the side pages of math textbooks.
Some examples of pitoids are:
a) In a mathematical beauty contest, the number π would be the Miss Universe among the constants.
b) Aliens are more likely to communicate to earthlings in terms of e, i, and π rather than 0 and 1.
c) No number in popular culture is more famous than π.
a) In a mathematical beauty contest, the number π would be the Miss Universe among the constants.
b) Aliens are more likely to communicate to earthlings in terms of e, i, and π rather than 0 and 1.
c) No number in popular culture is more famous than π.
by MathPlus October 20, 2021