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The capitalist-communist ideology Emperor Xi desires to indoctrinate on a billion-odd mainland Chinese citizens to “make China great again.”
Increasingly, more and more educated and middle-class citizens in China are reluctant to embrace “Xi Thought” in dictating their lives.
by MathPlus November 28, 2018
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Math publishers are pressuring their meat-eating textbook authors for a V Math edition, by replacing questions on eggs, chocolate bars, and the like with non-diary products to target the millions of students and teachers with a vegan or vegetarian diet worldwide.
by MathPlus February 16, 2021
Get the V Math mug.Commemorative stamps that honor the contributions of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, the co-fathers of Calculus, to mankind.
How many philaculus first day covers have so far been issued worldwide that credit the mathematical achievements of co-discovers Newton and Leibniz, who fought a years-old “mathematical war,” by accusing each other of plagiarism?
by MathPlus October 28, 2021
Get the Philaculus mug.An irrational fear of the irrational number pi, or a repulsion at the sight or sound of the symbol π, which some fringe psychologists suspect to be hereditary, because the victim was presumably not born with the “mathematical gene.”
Sufferers of piophobia argue that they’d be exempted from school math, because they’re allergic to all things numerical or symbolic.
by MathPlus November 4, 2020
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Prof. Ian is trying to kill two mathematical birds with a numerical stone in 2020: he wants to launch “Singapura Mathematica” and “Corona Mathematica” at the same time in the midst of rising infection and mortality rates nationwide.
by MathPlus December 1, 2020
Get the Corona Mathematica mug.The lie that an educated person needs to be versed in both probability and statistics, besides being fluent in applied arithmetic, to function confidently in life.
Unless they’re a math teacher or textbook writer, folks from most walks of life hardly need anything beyond grade four math to handle everyday numbers seamlessly—that they require higher math to succeed in life is nothing but mathematical bullshit.
by MathPlus October 28, 2017
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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
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