Tag: Random
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Mathematical Nihilism
Lets say you have a bowl filled with 100 rocks. 1 is painted red, 1 is painted green, and 98 of the rocks are unpainted. What percentage of the rocks in the bowl are painted? This is a fairly standard math problem for teaching percentages – and the answer of course is 2%. Conversely, if…
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Sky Isn’t Blue
Have you ever actually bothered to look up at the sky? More than 50% of the time in any given location – some more than others – it is NOT blue! Even when it is partly/mostly blue there are generally other colours up there! And even when it IS entirely blue, on a perfectly cloudless,…
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Follow-Up on Lies
My semi-recent post on compulsive liars wasn’t my best writing, went off the rails, and was kind of a rambling mess. This one probably won’t be much better, but meh. Maybe we’ll manage to stay a little more on topic here at least, we’ll see. Anyway as you may have guessed the previous post was…
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Favourites
“What is your favourite Movie?” I dunno “What is your favourite Music/Song?” I dunno What is your favourite Food?” I dunno “What is your favourite Colour?” I dunno You would think someone would know their own favourite things right? It seems obvious! And so these are so often the go-to questions when starting conversations with…
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Lord of the Flies
“Lord of the Flies” is a fictional novel which you may or may not have heard of, or even read. I’m sure it varies by region and changes over time – but when I was in grade school we had to read this book no less than *5* times for different classes, then discuss, analyze,…
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Random Poetry
The fat brown cat tripped over the silver spoon. A monkey may write Shakespeare, but I am a baboon. Yet fortune smiles upon us all, this rhyme is ending soon. So tip your hat, and bid a friendly farewell. Though not music to your ear, at least it wasn’t Hell. If I should have the…