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PhD

Short for “Preaching, Healing, and Delivering.” The title that has spiritually been conferred on every believer of Jesus Christ, who has been commanded to share to pre-believers or unbelievers the Good News of the Lord’s gift of eternal life and His forgiveness of sins, and who has been empowered in the name of Jesus to free people from difficulties, diseases, and demons.

All born-again Christians are conferred a PhD to be fishers of men—to win souls for the Kingdom of God, so that they could end up on the right side of eternity after their last breath.

by MathPlus March 16, 2021

π

A number that is arguably born with a lucky star due to its popularity or idolatry among mathematicians, who devoted an obscene number of years trying to unearth its allegedly manifold beautiful properties, much to the envy of thousands of fellow rational and irrational numbers, who see themselves as a nobody in the numerical world.

Besides a few lucky numbers like e, i, and 𝜙, which had aroused a fair bit of interest among the mathematical brethren, π remains the sexiest (or overrated) number in the whole of mathematics.

by MathPlus February 25, 2021

Dodo Christian

A label for a believer of Christ whose spiritual condition is worrisome as they appear to be heading to the side of eternity, where now reside the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos, and Osamas—a global synchronized corporate prayer might help save the souls of these Easter or Christmas attendees.

With atheism as the unspoken religion in most parts of Europe, and with right-wing or religious extremism on the rise in the US and the West, guesstimate how many millions of dodo Christians worldwide might not have their names in the Book of Life.

by MathPlus May 16, 2021

Vaccine Hypocrisy

When a country blamed other nations for using their own state-funded vaccines to expand their political and economic influence across the world, and now it is doing the same thing, by promising to donate millions of vaccine doses to developing nations to make up for its geopolitical losses, which arose due to fake political leadership.

To counter China’s and Russia’s vaccine diplomacy in the developing world, the US has succumbed to vaccine hypocrisy, as it plans to donate half a billion Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as a desperate attempt to resurrect its comatose leadership on the world stage.

by MathPlus June 10, 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

Comfortably Uncomfortable

When you decide not to let unpredictability or uncertainty affect you and your future—you have come to terms that you have got to live with chaos, no matter how disruptive it can be in putting up a brake to your life’s goals.

Instead of blaming events or things that he’s no control over, John has learned to be comfortably uncomfortable in coping with life’s challenges—he doesn’t let bad breaks or misfortunes affect his attitude towards life; instead, he’s grateful that he can rely on God’s wisdom to overcome whatever obstacle comes his way.

by MathPlus July 20, 2018