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Miss -information and Dice Games...

Quotes of the day: "I am America, I am the part you won't recognize, but get used to me." - Muhammad Ali  "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." -  History Books and Probability Theory  Prompt: “Some areas of knowledge seek to describe the world, whereas others seek to transform it.” Explore this claim with reference to history and one other area of knowledge. Before we begin…I have one very cliche question to ask you: If you could meet one historical figure and ask them anything, who would it be, and what would you ask? Go on, answer it! Now… tell me about this person, is it male? Female? If you mentioned your historical figure to any random passerby, would they know who you are talking about? If you came up with a woman who is not Queen Elizabeth, congratulations! You are one of the few who even mentioned a woman at all. L...

Flat like a pancake: let's talk about curves

Quotes of the day "Out of nothing, I have created a strange new universe." - Janos Bolyai "It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see." -Henry David Thoreau Flat like a pancake: let's talk about curves Oooooohh do we get to talk about VS models or Kim K's (recently hidden) butt today? Or better yet, can we talk about Kylie Jenner's recent photos with Tyga? Ha! No... but we do get to talk about something even more deceptive (and probably way cheaper) than her half empty lip kits all of the YouTube makeup gurus have been ranting about. Today we are talking about.... MATH!!! * crowd booing and throwing tomatoes* I'm sorry... have I deceived you? Well guess what? So have all your math teachers! About what? you may ask... well... lots of things... but today, we will be taking about parallel lines. Apparently... they aren't a thing... ╮(O_o)╭ Image source  When we were first told this in ...