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Vaccine Apartheid

When a government pretends not to make vaccination compulsory for everyone, yet has enacted rules that makes the unvaccinated unable to live a normal life—it is pure hypocrisy for making inoculation voluntary while making the unjabbed suffer for their “selfish” decision for not protecting themselves and others.

Guesstimate how many developed countries practise vaccine apartheid in one form or another, while claiming to respect the personal rights of their citizens to get jabbed or not.

by MathPlus November 28, 2021

CRE8TIVE MATH

Exploring the beauty, ubiquity, and utility of the number 8 on earth—in disciplines like math, science, art, philosophy, religion, and literature—in heaven, and in hell.

Some cre8tive math questions are:

What is half of 8? 0, 3, or 4?
What color is the number 8?
How are eight and infinity related?
Why do spiders and scorpions have 8 legs?

Why are superstitious Chinese fond of the digit 8?
What is the spiritual significance of the number 8 in the Bible?
What are some common traits for people born with the digital root 8?

by MathPlus February 8, 2021

Bat

A nocturnal creature that continues to receive bad press since the coronavirus pandemic hit the planet, because it was blamed for unprovenly transmitting the virus to humans.

After a video showing a Chinese woman consuming bat soup (which was shot in Palau, and not in China, many years before the Covid-19 outbreak) was virally circulated, the bat has since become the world’s most notorious mammal.

by MathPlus March 8, 2021

Mask Mania

When people blindly or religiously follow the directives of the authorities to wear a face mask at all times, as two barriers are debatably better than one—the sick person wears one, and the well person also wears one to protect themselves and others regardless of where they are in public at any time of the day, and whether they are alone or not.

Are these examples of mask mania? Cab drivers sitting in car by themselves wearing masks. People walking their dogs outdoors wearing masks, and nobody near them. People wearing masks at home, because they want to protect their pets.

by MathPlus June 16, 2021

Pi Brexit

When math teachers in a school or state can’t see eye to eye on the degree of accuracy the number π should be given in a math question—for example, should the students be asked to take π to be 22/7 or 3.14?

In the aftermath of the “Pi Brexit” war, a red state in the US has recorded at least a dozen resignations from hardcore evangelical math teachers, who refuse to bulge unless the schools agree to use the biblical value of three for π.

by MathPlus October 16, 2021

Bar Model Method

A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.

In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

God’s Mercy

When God turns our mistake into a miracle, because His mercy is greater than any of our mistakes—our past doesn’t define our future, but God does.

One touch of God is enough to catapult us to our destiny, thanks to God’s mercy—just because we’ve tried and failed many times doesn’t make us a failure.

by MathPlus December 21, 2018