Joshua Zucker

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I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

Help me solve a beautiful geometric math problem!

I'm stuck and need a better approach!

Believe it or not, it's from 1898, I'm guessing from a temple in Japan (Sangaku).

#mathart #mtbos #iteachmath (cc @catrionaagg.bsky.social )

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Senator Elizabeth Warren: Firing of BLS commissioner is 'dangerous' Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss her reaction President Trump's firing of BSL chief, whether Congress is able to take action, and much more.

Elizabeth Warren went to CNBC today and destroyed Donald Trump on the economy. Trump is trying to bury this appearance with a tantrum on his failing media site.

Make sure this goes viral instead.

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the fact that tamora pierce hasnt had her books snapped up for films is a crime against women

Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL

🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

“Speaking out for kids in this situation is more important than my career.”

More people need to internalize this.

I think there’s a lot of recategorizing medical care people need as “waste” by deciding who doesn’t “deserve” it

This is a brilliantly done podcast, thank you!

Absolutely! Uncanny Magazine shines in showcasing diverse voices. As Octavia Butler said, “All that you touch, you change.” What stories have impacted you the most? 🪐📚 #Scifi #DiversityInSFF

These are so beautiful!

My son and I were looking at this paper art in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He says, deadpan, "Do you think he made these with one cut?" #FoldAndCutTheoremJoke

8 rectangular biscuits in shades of cream, red, and brown, laid out on a square white plate against a colourful bookish background. Some biscuits show details of printed pages from early modern books (an illuminated letter, an illustration, handwritten annotations). Others are based on book bindings, featuring gold details and marbling. On the top row, a figure in a feathered hat, doublet, and voluminous hose is being stabbed in the chest by a long sword.

Let’s do a bit of literary history next. This set is inspired by early modern books in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Folger Shakespeare Library collections.

Shakespeare’s First Folio makes three biscuity appearances here. Honourable mentions also to Milton and to Beaumont and Fletcher.

I have long wondered if it's that aging makes you less able to filter the good ideas from the bad ones, so all the creative geniuses end up pursuing wacky ideas ...

but now I wonder if it's having a billion dollars or a Nobel makes people suck up to you so much, you forget how to check your work.

Yes, they are counting female and male arrestees separately. And apparently using negative numbers to count the female arrestees. I can imagine it's easier to get their software to plot things to the left of the axis using negative numbers in their data table, but please correct the axis label!

Yes! And even when it doesn't change my mind, maybe it's worthwhile to help me understand another perspective, where it comes from, what they value, what they're working towards, why we disagree

Yeah understandable at first because there are computer situations where (if you think about false as 0 and true as nonzero values), + means or and * means and … but people should catch on that this is not a computer language situation.

I have voted for

the bill

that was in

the senate

and which

I said I was

hoping someone would amend

in the house

Forgive me

it was delicious

so sweet to the rich

and so cold to those on medicaid

HIGHLY suggest reading this aloud. The words will drip like honey off your tongue

A picture of me and a discount code for $20 off a four day adult pass for CONvergence, with the code “SPARKLEPONY”

Hey everyone, I’m leaving New York, but that means IT’S ALMOST TIME FOR CONVERGENCE IN MINNEAPOLIS!

They’re doing a special $20 discount if you’re still waiting, but you have to be a BEAUTFULLY UNIQUE SPARKLEPONY TO GET IT.

ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE TO BE A SPARKLEPONY??

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on this day in 1969 the Stonewall Uprising, "a pivotal moment in the LGBTQ+ rights fight, began and sparked a movement led in part by two transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera." Let us honor them today by fighting for love and equality today.

One night, as a struggling 23-year-old freelance reporter writing about the war in Iraq, I sat down to write a letter to the great Bill Moyers. I wasn’t expecting an answer—but I’d heard him on NPR talking about the power of pen-and-paper letters, and so I thought, “Why not try!”

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

"In the end, the work on monostable tetrahedra didn’t involve any particularly sophisticated math, according to Richard Schwartz of Brown University. But, he said, it’s important to ask this kind of question in the first place. It’s the kind of problem that’s often easiest to overlook."

They haven’t posted it here but @votehub.com made an incredible graphic of the NYC primary showing results with population by precinct on the Z axis designed to look like a building map of NYC. One of my favorite political maps ever.

I ALSO NEEDED TO KNOW THIS

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.

A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.

Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!

Can you guess these regions of sky?

This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪

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Here's a fun challenge: Can you come up with the largest possible greatest common factor?

The Disordered Cosmos

The cover image, I think, is pretty clear. My best friend and I came up with this concept together after looking through some stuff that was clearly based on Lorna Simpson art. The idea was to say Black people are star stuff. Black people are visible matter. You are a part of the cosmos.

Trump says he will 'liberate' Los Angeles in speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the Army President Donald Trump called protesters in Los Angeles “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech at Fort Bragg as he defended deploying the military on those protesting his immigration enforcement.

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