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exbloodjunkie: (◡‿◡✿)

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:29:41 -0400

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clover-rabbit: I ship this. I will forever ship this. FUCKING...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:27:54 -0400

clover-rabbit:

I ship this. I will forever ship this.
FUCKING SOUL MATES!!!

roypoptart: servantofsadako: equalist: equalist: imagine if yugioh wasn’t about a card...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:39:57 -0400

roypoptart:

servantofsadako:

equalist:

equalist:

imagine if yugioh wasn’t about a card game

5000 years ago when the pyramids were still young egyptian kings played a game of shadows. a game called “Sorry!”

IT’S TIME TO G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GO BACK FOUR SPACES.

marathemara: maharetr: naamahdarling: jackpowerx: scientists...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:54:31 -0400

marathemara:

maharetr:

naamahdarling:

jackpowerx:

scientiststhesis:

dr-archeville:

8bitstickmod:

nightguardmod:

songoharotto:

fabricated-amity:

my entire math life

This is basically the problem with the entire modern educational system.

Time to do unpopular opinion? Time to do unpopular opinion.

Balancing a checkbook is applied addition and subtraction, stuff of the third grade. Okay, yeah, it is a failure of the modern educational system if he hasn’t learned it by now.

Imaginary numbers interact with real numbers (1, 2, π, 1.5, etc) for complex numbers, and are useful if you want to get into engineering or science — you know, high paying jobs.

Remember Tomb Raider? How they make her turn? Quaternions, which use THREE sets of imaginary numbers.

Like how your cell phone gets reception? That requires resonance, the understanding of which can be aided by complex numbers.

And don’t even get me started in the more exotic physics like fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics. That is, the forefront of how planes fly and how computer chips work.

There’s this term, innumeracy, that is to math what illiteracy is to english. One thing that bugs me is when ignorance is paraded about, when one acts as if math is an optional knowledge. Doubly so when it’s the very thing holding them back.

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Thank you maths side of tumblr

The failure is not in teaching these things, but the lack of teaching about why we should care about these things.

Come to think of it, that’s applicable to how a lot of subjects are taught.

But I’m afraid maths gets the worst of it, really. I mean, how often have you heard people complaining about history? Social sciences? Even chemistry, which is more specialised than maths? No, maths gets the worst of it by far, and everyone demonises it because no one ever tells them that maths is a language, and a quite difficult one at that, because it’s the language of the Universe (of god, if you will).

Not only that, but it’s also the only language that’s truly universal (we’re certain aliens will arrive at the same maths we have) and that can truly explain everything that’s in principle conceivable. Human language can describe the stuff we see, and some extrapolations we imagine; maths can describe everything that is, was, will be, has never been, and could ever be.

Everything is maths.

ALL OF THIS!!!!!!

I like a lot of this, though some of it is not so great. But this:

“No, maths gets the worst of it by far, and everyone demonises it because no one ever tells them that maths is a language, and a quite difficult one at that,”

Yup. I am pretty sure that if one single fucking person had listened to me and understood that math was really goddamn hard for me even in first grade I would not have been so fucking negative and hateful about it the entire time I was in school and for years after. It was something I had to do, nobody told me why, and when I couldn’t do it, nobody slowed down and helped me figure out how. It was sink or swim. I sank, and that was my fault, according to them.

And then they made like I was being stupid going into art and writing because I was “so smart” I should be able to do anything. And yet, years later, anything beyond basic arithmetic was and is mostly irrelevant to what I do, I have made no effort to retain what I learned that I do not use, and that’s fine.

I don’t think people should be proud of innumeracy, I think that’s pretty stupid, and I think a lot of people probably do it because they’re douchebags, but I do think that some (not all but some) of those people act like buttholes about it because they got dragged through the same shit I did, and the fact that in most cases they have not once been called upon to use anything beyond basic math comes as a vindication after years of being basically poked with sharp math sticks and told they are bad, bad dogs for not being able to understand it the way it is taught. They were treated like shit, and they are lashing out.

See, I’m pretty goddamn sure that dyscalculia is a very real thing, because I am pretty sure I have it. I have a mini panic surge every time I have to recite my social security number because I constantly transpose the numbers. I can only remember my phone number because it has a rhythm to it. I can’t reliably remember birthdays if they’re past the 12th of the month unless they fall on a multiple of 5, or in January, March, April, or any month between but not including June and October. If I were faking, I would not be faking something that stupid and specific. And I’m not proud of it. (Nor am I ashamed.)

I am pretty sure that a shit-ton of kids would be much happier and doing much better in math if dyscalculia was a thing that teachers would admit exists and isn’t just the result of being a lazy little shit.

I LIKED math when I was able to understand it, because it was like magic. It was putting all these tiny things into place and making them work and turning them into bigger things, or it was breaking big things down into tiny things, it was bringing order from something nonsensical, like flattening out the kinks in the universe WITH MY MIIIIIND. What algebra I could learn was a beautiful balancing act, back and forth. Not an art, which is subjective and personal, but something precise and measurable and consistent, and the same for every person.

I understood and still do understand the appeal of math. I just required about four times longer to learn it than other kids, and there was no time and no room for that, because education (in the USA, at least) is basically a Play-Doh Fun Factory with a pit full of lies about there being jobs on the other side. So I failed algebra twice. Instead of helping me, they just made me do it again the same way, and I failed again. I only passed because my teacher had mercy on me and gave me a D- on my final, instead of an F.

And, parting shot, math can describe things, it is a concrete and unchanging language with literally limitless capacity for expression without ambiguity or the possibility of being misunderstood. And that is … it cannot even be miraculous, because it is so common. It’s fundamental. And it can be amazing. When I learned about fractals, when I learned about the Fibonacci sequence, that shit blew my fucking mind.

But it cannot bring meaning to everyone’s life (some people, maybe, not not all). That’s where art, writing, dance, etc. comes in for many people. We need both. Science to explain why things are, art to give things human meaning. For me, science is why I am alive. Art is what gives me a reason to live. Those things are inextricably entwined, and equally important, and there literally cannot be one without the other. You describe it with numbers, I describe it with words. Neither one is wrong.

Disrespecting and dismissing either one as useless or stupid is kind of a dick move.

Disrespecting people who crap on what you do by saying it’s stupid and doesn’t matter (math or art), or people who call you stupid because things are hard for you and why can’t you just, that is completely understandable. I support all y’all math nerds in that, 100%.

Queueing this so I can se it again when I have more brain

Reblogging for the difference between dyscalculia and innumeracy.

shippingshevine: are we just going to ignore this...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:48:44 -0400

shippingshevine:

are we just going to ignore this or

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"Feminism that’s based in a link between gender and genitals doesn’t just exclude people who’s bodies..."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:21:56 -0400

“Feminism that’s based in a link between gender and genitals doesn’t just exclude people who’s bodies don’t fit – it’s a fundamentally flawed analysis that perpetuates an essentialist idea that feminism partially exists to combat. Feminism that centers a trans feminist take on gender, that recognizes that woman ≠ vagina, offers a more accurate gender analysis in general that benefits everyone.”

- Jos Truitt, On trans issues within feminism and strengthening the movement’s gender analysis (via fuckyeahfeminists)

yo this whole article is real good

(via upsettingg)

if you are making a fanvid and it’s a “ship name moments” fanvid and the ship is...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:13:29 -0400

if you are making a fanvid

and it’s a “ship name moments” fanvid

and the ship is talking to each other

and the point of that exchange is that they are being shippy

WHY ARE YOU PLAYING MUSIC OVER WHAT THEY’RE SAYING

WHAT IS THE POINT

werewolfromance: HOW ARE PEOPLE GETTING HQ CAPS ALREADY THO i’m not complaining, look at...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:56:12 -0400

werewolfromance:

HOW ARE PEOPLE GETTING HQ CAPS ALREADY THO

i’m not complaining, look at his lovely stubbled face

winchestercodependency: what the fuck is going on TWINCEST

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:53:27 -0400

winchestercodependency:

what the fuck is going on

~~~~TWINCEST~~~~

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:08 -0400

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seeificanfoolyou: im not sorry oh my goD

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:23:18 -0400

seeificanfoolyou:

im not sorry

oh my goD

and-alittlebitfoxy: well that was a thrilling wedding by dothraki standards

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:32:46 -0400

and-alittlebitfoxy:

well that was a thrilling wedding by dothraki standards

becks28nz: Lord of the Rings : Gender Swapped

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:41:48 -0400

becks28nz:

Lord of the Rings : Gender Swapped

atomicvalkyrie: yall-mothafuckas-need-misha: allyouneedisalittl...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:39:03 -0400

atomicvalkyrie:

yall-mothafuckas-need-misha:

allyouneedisalittlefaith:

eathealthylivehappylovealways:

I NEVER NOTICED HIM

How has no one known this..

holy shit he’s fucking gorgeous

He was always gorgeous what are you talking about

how did people NOT notice this, he was the hottest guy in the entire film

tryingtoextendyourlife: allylovesmaroon5: Just leave me to...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:33:32 -0400

tryingtoextendyourlife:

allylovesmaroon5:

Just leave me to die

i will never get tired of this

getsby: koolkidseatgreens: Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:04:02 -0400

getsby:

koolkidseatgreens:

Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because you’re an auto tuned peice of shit who shouldn’t be famous, you have no Buisness being in the music industry, it’s not even your music you fuck, someone else wrote it for you to record and them to auto tune yourself. And it’s not at all good . It’s not positive either. So complain some more.

I don’t know if you know this, tumblr user koolkidseatgreens, but Ke$ha is a certified genius. She has an IQ over 140 and an SAT score of 1500. When she was younger she would go to the library and do research for fun. Ke$ha is a both feminist and an advocate for equal marriage/rights for people of any sexuality, being a queer woman herself.

Ke$ha is a smart, professional woman, and just because she sings songs about wanting to let loose and have fun every once in a while doesn’t make her a piece of shit.

Ke$ha’s songs are meant to point out the sexism in our media. She treats men the same way many men in the music industry treat women, and she is hated on for it. Relentlessly. She sings on multiple occasions about taking charge in a sexual relationship, of how she only uses men for their body parts. She sexualizes men to make them uncomfortable. She sexualizes men for a reaction, so that people can both see why women are so uncomfortable with their sexualization and also to point out the inequality between the sexes both in the media and in the world at large.

She is judged so harshly for singing about things that make many men famous.

If you listen to Ke$ha’s deconstructed album you will see that she actually has some talent, which may be hard to hear because she does in fact use a fair amount of autotune. This is because of her genre and because of the kind of music she chooses to create as an artist. Ke$ha may not write her songs, but this doesn’t meant she isn’t a good artist or a good person. This doesn’t mean she deserves your harsh words. Some singers are good at writing, but that’s hardly a requirement. Last time I checked whether or not you can sing has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a poet.

You should not be calling anyone a piece of shit, my friend, especially someone you’ve never sat down and had a conversation (or even taken the time to wonder about her feelings!), but if anyone deserves that kind of language it’s not Ke$ha.

You may think that by shaming women for expressing their sexuality and having fun every once in a while, that you are somehow abolishing sexism. That in weeding out the less ‘deserving’ women you are gaining our sex more respect. This is not the case, and the fact that you and many others feel such a strong need to shame this woman who has done nothing wrong, especially not to you, shows that we still have a very far away to go.