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V Math

Short for “Vegan Math.” Math titles that indirectly promote a vegan lifestyle, by having zero questions on diary products like meat and milk, and excluding any brain-unfriendly chickens-and-rabbits and eggs word problems.

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

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

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

Figureoutable

When you have what it takes to figure anything out—the things you don’t know you know—and become the person your are divinely destined to be in spite of your present difficult situation or circumstances.

Everything is figureoutable unless you have let the doubters or naysayers talk you out of your dreams or life purposes, or you have agreed with the enemy that you can’t do anything else other than to accept your fate until your last heartbeat.

by MathPlus July 8, 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

We Are One in Pi.

When math geeks are connected to each other by their shared love for arguably the most beautiful constant in mathematics: π’s beauty, ubiquity, and utility never fail to bring and bond them together.

Just as a number of white racists and supremacists are united by the xenophobic policies of Donald J. Trump, so a number of recreational mathematicians are drawn by the occurrence or presence of pi in the least unexpected places, who love telling the non-math people: “We are one in pi.”

by MathPlus December 13, 2020

No Mask, No Math

The slogan by math educators for their pseudoscientific or conspiracist audience, who argue that mask wearing or social distancing is ineffective in protecting them and others, especially for those who now have a certain degree of immunity after recovering from Covid-19.

Pastors tell their congregations: “no mask, no mass”; principals tell their classes: “no mask, no math.”

by MathPlus November 27, 2020