The label for the unnamed and unapproved half-baked coronavirus vaccine by Indian firm Biological E, which has shown “promising results” in the first two phases, and which will be available for use in the next few months, with or without WHO’s approval.
The BJP government has so much faith in Vaccine X that it has made a $206m order for 300 million doses, compared to 350 million doses from both Covishield and Covaxin, the two WHO-unapproved vaccines currently in use.
by MathPlus June 04, 2021
When the Singapore authorities could stop, disable, or block access to any online math content, which was unprovenly created via the works of foreign mathematicians or math educators, that the government deems politically, racially, religiously, or socially inappropriate to be published, because it could cast doubt or create confusion in the minds of locals, who could then have a low or wavering confidence in the Ministry of Education (MOE)’s goal in making the “fine” city an innumerate-free nation—FICA is short for “Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act.”
With a penalty of a fine of up to S$5,000 and continuing fines of up to S$500 for “every day or part of a day” for refusing to remove any politically incorrect content, guesstimate how much FICA math revenue could be generated annually from “mathematically significant” individuals and organizations that committed a mathematical offence.
by MathPlus October 14, 2021
A “very dangerous” hybrid of the two highly transmissible Indian and UK Covid-19 strains, whose infectivity, transmissivity, and lethality levels have yet to be unveiled by Vietnam's health ministry.
Arrange the following corona mutants in ascending order in terms of their deadliness: Indian variant, South African variant, UK variant, Vietnamese variant.
by MathPlus May 31, 2021
When you are not poor to beg nor rich to have insomnia, yet you can eat and drink (without a tube), walk (without bodyguards), shower (without a nurse), and earn or save enough (without kissing your boss’s ass)—and you can contribute to Urban Dictionary every now and then.
Heaven on earth starts right here on this side of eternity, not after you’ve earned your first million or billion, or experienced your last heartbeat—remember to count your blessings and be a blessing to others.
by MathPlus October 02, 2018
When you start wondering what would happen if you lost what you have, instead of uncritically thinking about all the things you want to achieve in life.
If only more people would practice negative visualization every now and then to take stock of what might go wrong in spite of their positive attitudes in taking risks in life, few would get hurt or burnt of their hard-earned money.
by MathPlus December 20, 2017
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
When you are at home with both Singapore’s bar model method and stack model method that you know which problem-solving visualization strategy is more suitable to solve certain types of word problems.
It’s an open secret that most Singapore math educators or coaches are ill-equipped to handle blended modeling—most are familiar with bar modeling, but few are fluent with the more intuitive stack modeling, in tackling brain-unfriendly math questions.
by MathPlus November 01, 2021