The artistic equivalent of ordering a McDonald’s meal instead of going through the hassle of doing your own cooking at home.
Just as you can enjoy the food prepared by a gourmet chef even if you’re a hopeless cook, so you can appreciate a piece of art even if you’re clumsy at handling a “Paint by Numbers” kit.
by MathPlus January 08, 2019
Get the Paint by Numbersmug. When some math geeks celebrate their birthday by having each half of their cake cut into four pieces, with three of them each having an arc length equal to the radius of the cake.
by MathPlus February 06, 2021
Get the Pi Slices of Piemug. Donald Trump’s pet word for any article or broadcast that exposes his white lies and shady deals, or for anyone who refuses to make him appear smarter or richer than he genuinely is.
Thanks to President Trump, “fake news” will probably be his most memorable presidential legacy long after he’s been impeached and imprisoned for branding that phrase in popular culture.
by MathPlus February 01, 2019
Get the Fake Newsmug. Someone who grudgingly wears a face mask in public after being fined at least once for failing to do so previously.
After being fined $300 for her first offense and $1,000 for her second offense for refusing to wear a mask in public, Arna is now a repentant maskhøle, who has been
warned that a third offense would land her behind bars.
warned that a third offense would land her behind bars.
by MathPlus March 13, 2021
Get the MASKHØLEmug. The sociological equivalent of “Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid”—the unspoken observation about two neighboring frenemies, who are afraid of losing out and who are afraid of dying.
The foreign publisher is consulting its lawyers on whether the Singapore government might ban the sale of “Singaporeans Are Kiasu, Malaysians Are Kiasi,” which pokes fun at the idiocies and idiosyncrasies of Singaporeans and Malaysians.
by MathPlus June 22, 2018
Get the Singaporeans Are Kiasu, Malaysians Are Kiasimug. When the number π tries to keep herself fresh in the mind’s eye of mathematicians and math educators, by getting involved in the christening of new words and phrases, such as “piralysis,” “Covid-π,” and “pi in the sky”; or by letting her and other pi expressions being redefined with new meanings, often associated with Covid-19 or its variants.
Like the top billionaires who became wealthier during the coronavirus crisis, thanks to Urban Dictionary, pi in the pandemic was productive in producing a few dozen new pi-words and phrases to keep the mathematical brethren in some quasi-aha! mood in the midst of fear and pain.
by MathPlus October 14, 2021
Get the Pi in the Pandemicmug. When countries are caught between the desire to open up their borders to lure tourists to their shores and the fear of triggering new waves of infections.
Singapore finds itself in a pandemic purgatory situation: Should it allow thousands of migrant workers back to revive its comatose construction industry, or should it wait until the infection rates in the countries where these workers come from to head south?
by MathPlus March 21, 2022
Get the Pandemic Purgatorymug.