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When someone conspicuously wears a π tattoo to publicly show their undeniable or unquestionable love for the irrational number.
Just because some gangsters have a pittoo on their forehead is no proof that they actually love the world’s most disliked school subject—on the contrary, it’d be very likely that they hate the symbol so much that they decided to wear it out of rebellion.
by MathPlus February 26, 2021
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Although President Biden told the world that America is back on the world stage, however, US allies feel ambivalent about this new political normal, because for them, one Trump is one too many.
by MathPlus February 27, 2021
Get the One Trump is one too many. mug.What a Christian calls “the unmerited favor of Jesus,” because there are no coincidences in their life.
What the world calls “luck,” for the born-again believer, this word isn’t part of their spiritual vocabulary.
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Get the Luck mug.A belief among superstitious or idolatrous folks in some parts of Asia that the evil spirit of the coronavirus would linger around until it has claimed at least three victims within days in a certain locality.
Some polytechnic students couldn’t start their “morbid” project to test the paranormal hypothesis whether or not “Covid strikes in threes,” because it’s deemed “insensitive and heartless.”
by MathPlus February 27, 2021
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Members of the public in Singapore had to wait until February to get hold of the 2021 primary one math textbooks and workbooks, which is based on the new MOE syllabus, because a number of kiasu tuition center owners had called the bookstores in December to reserve dozens of these new titles, leaving zero copies for those who couldn’t buy them from school bookshops.
by MathPlus February 28, 2021
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On moral grounds, rich countries face a vaccine dilemma: should they let medical personnel from rogue or dictatorial nations like North Korea and Venezuela be jabbed first before their own people?
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