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The Fascinating Story Of The Three-Body Problem — A sketch of three celestial bodies seen eclipsing each other with the text “3-body” problem written to the right of the sketch.

The Fascinating Story Of The Three-Body Problem

A journey through centuries of scientific progress!

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How To Debunk Fake Math Proofs? — a = b; a*a = a*b; a*a — b*b = a*b — b*b; (a+b)*(a-b) = b*(a-b); a+b = b; 2b = b; 2 = 1

How To Debunk Fake Math Proofs?

You spot one, you spot them all!

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The sixth grade math puzzle — First example: Number at the top: 5, number at the left: 3, number at the right: 2, number at the bottom: 4, number at the center: 19. Second example: Number at the top: 9, number at the left: 3, number at the right: 3, number at the bottom: 7, number at the center: 54. Puzzle: Number at the top: 6, number at the left: 5, number at the right: 4, number at the bottom: 8, number at the center: ?

Can You Solve This Sixth Grade Math Puzzle?

This puzzle requires simple pattern recognition skills.

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A pie-chart titled “Things I learned in organic chemistry”, showing the following four legends: Blue: “Interesting compounds”, black: “The secrets of the universe”, green: “powerful reactions”, and pink: “How to draw hexgons”. The pie chart ironically contains only pink hinting that the author only learned how to draw hexagons from organic chemistry.

My Journey From Hating To Loving Chemistry

I never understood why chemical reactions occur — until now!

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The Math Behind Image Rotation — A grid of 9 square blocks arranged in a 3x3 grid. Each block is numbered and has a unique color. On the right, the same block has been rotated 90 degrees in the clockwise direction. An question mark in the middle asks how to do this.

The Simple Math Behind Image Rotation

Featuring an old-school game-development algorithm!

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How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self — A white board text reading “Solve for x (or just don’t)”

How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self

I wish someone had told me this when I was younger!

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Regression To The Mean: Why Success Fades With Time — An illustration showing a breakfast table with a stern looking father (wearing glasses) sitting with folded hands on the right, and a happy and cheerful little girl seated on the left. The girl seems to be saying the following, “My grades are not falling. They are regressing to the mean!”

Regression To The Mean: Why Success Fades With Time

This tricky phenomenon deceives even the…

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The words life and entropy pointed at each other in a circular fashion. The word entropy is in pink inside a black box, whereas the word life is in black with inside a pink box. While entropy points to life with a curved pink arrow, life points to entropy with a curved black arrow.

The Purpose Of Life

The duality of life and entropy!

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How To Really Understand The Notion Of Fallacy? — An illustration showing two stick figures representing two speakers over speaking tables arguing. The stick figure on the left says, “Your logic is weak!” The stick figure on the right asks in return, “How weak is it exactly?”

Fallacy: How To Really Understand It?

Let us end pseudoscientific arguments once and for all!

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How To Mentally Calculate The Cubed Root As 2-Digit Integers? a question that asks what is the cubed root of 175616

How To Mentally Calculate Cube Roots As 2-Digit Integers?

A mental math trick that makes you look like…

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