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by MathPlus November 29, 2020
Get the Procrastination mug.Three letters academically inclined folks long to insert after their names, as they are set to spend tens of thousands of dollars and slog through thousands of man-hours to earn it—they couldn’t care less whether their dissertations have near-zero value or impact on the outside world or not.
In an age when you can virtually order your fake PhD of any prestigious university for a few hundred bucks in a matter of days, who says that a doctorate degree is meant only for geeks or nerds?
by MathPlus November 13, 2018
Get the PhD mug.When an unvaccinated person assumes that the authorities would grant them a medical exemption to take part in a national event, tournament, or competition because of their fame and wealth, or denying them a privileged or unfair entry would incur loss of tourism revenue and create negative publicity for the country.
In appealing against the cancellation of a visa entry to Australia—which was decided in the name of “health and safety and in the public interest”—lawyers of the world’s number one tennis player failed to convince the court that their djokovicinated client wouldn’t "increase in anti-vaccination sentiment" and even incite "civil unrest.”
by MathPlus January 16, 2022
Get the Djokovicinated mug.An introductory course on the number zero offered at some community colleges as part of the popularization of mathematics to an oft-semi-innumerate public.
by MathPlus August 26, 2021
Get the ZERO 101 mug.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 4, 2021
Get the Not Anti-God, but Anti-Christ mug.The mathematical equivalent of having brown rice rather than white biryani rice. An unsexy, wholesome math curriculum that is healthy to the mind, but brain-unfriendly for most students, who need to force themselves to mastering the concepts confidently.
Like taking cod liver oil, which is good for the body immune system, Singapore math may look unappetizing, but after spending a few hundred hours practicing thousands of nonroutine, impractical or sterile questions, your brain can only get mathematically stronger and healthier.
by MathPlus June 7, 2018
Get the Singapore Math mug.An artist’s lawbreaking pastime, whereby they irreverently paint math-related drawings, formulas, or symbols in forbidden areas or public squares without getting caught by the authorities—the artistic equivalent of a couple illicitly indulging in a quickie with zero public knowledge or suspicion.
Few illegal activities give the mathematical graffiti artist more thrill when working in a pressurized environment, compared to taking part in an annual pressure-free graffiti carnival approved by the authorities.
by MathPlus March 13, 2021
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