Hmm, I wonder how long a light-hearted educational winter treat can get without invalidating its premise? Surely I can sneak in a couple group theory lectures and incorporate contributions from 12 other mathematicians (interpreted loosely. math is everywhere):
Matt Godbolt: @MattGodbolt Sam Hartburn: @samhartburn Sophie Maclean: @sophiemaclean9999 Ayliean MacDonald: @Ayliean Geoff Marshall: @geofftech2 jan Misali: @HBMmaster Self Citation: @tom7 Peter Rowlett: @peterrowlett Matt Parker: @standupmaths Kat Phillips: @KatDoesMaths Matthew Scroggs: @scroggs2 Ben Sparks: @SparksMaths Katie Steckles: @KatieSteckles
Question to the Americans here: were any of you or any of your friends ever "grounded" for anything? Because speaking as a Dutch guy I genuinely do not recall ever hearing about anyone in my school who was, and to me it was always one of those "made up Americal TV series" things.
Yep, I was grounded for bad grades in school. Wasn't allowed to do anything but school and home for homework- no TV, books, or hobbies allowed. Grew up in the 90's. Friends were also grounded at various times for hijinks. Same type of thing- nothing allowed but school and homework, and maybe chores as punishment.
Real talk about rural economics, how most rural counties are run by a few wealthy local families, and how THAT explains why those parts of the map are so red.
This really makes me wonder what the European agriculture socio-political landscape actually looks like underneath all the common media narratives that are undoubtedly very distorted by people and companies with lots of money riding on it.
In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs bosons imbues other elementary particles with mass, making them slow down enough to assemble into atoms, which then clump together to make everything else. A couple of months later, I took a job as…