Uchidachi

matchoo28:

Bit of fan art

Pietro is grumpycat >:(

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marvelentertainment:

MARVEL PANEL OF THE DAY

From:Defenders (1972) #3 

Look, Namor, just say you like playing out in the snow so we can move on.

(Source: marvel.com)

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.

My mother taught 8th grade math for years, and she had this one (high-school level) workbook that I thought was the greatest.  It starts with asking the kids to fill out a worksheet saying what they wanted to do as a career, and how they thought mathematics would help them in their job.  And, of course, most kids were like “I am going to be a farmer/hairdresser/professional rock musician and not use math at all thank you very much” (and the ones who wanted to be bankers and engineers didn’t think they needed much more than they already knew) 

Then the rest of the workbook was different problems of varying difficulty (some were outright devious) showing mathematical problems coming up in all different careers. I don’t remember them exactly but they were something like:

If hair grows at one inch per month, and your client comes to see you every five and a half months, at what length should you cut their hair so it is closest to their desired length for the longest amount of time?

If growing corn gives you x cents a bushel, and you can grow so many bushels on each acre… and wheat costs a different amount but can grow more on each acre…

The musician one was the most difficult because it got into music production and waveforms and was way over my head when I read it, but yeah, it was pretty epic.  And now it is bothering me that I can’t remember the name of it, although it is likely out of print.

burntlikethesun:

_{positive lady characters meme: Sarah Jane Smith + powerful/feminist moment}

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plutopiter:

pettyartist:

the most graceful of birds.

I will reblog this everyday forever.