Gender discrimination is still a big problem nowadays, and is dragging us behind in the race to save the planet and ourselves. That is why identifying the areas where it is still a problem is important. The project this week aims to localize this problem inside editor boards in the field of mathematics.
Today I bring you a very nice and funny collection of plushies made by Etsy user NausicaaDistributions. They are the statistical distribution plushies.
They are quite funny, but not always available.
Check from time to time if you are looking for a particular distribution.
Original title: What if?
Title of this edition: What if?
Author: Randall Munroe.
Gender: Scientific divulgation.
Saga: —
Editorial: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublishing Company.
Edition year: 1, 2014..
Prizes: …
Synopsis [Warning: Spoiler]: This is a set of scientific answer to “absurd hypothetical questions”, like for instance “How high a human can through something?”.
Personal Review: There is 3 reasons why I enjoy this book quite a lot. The first one, because it is a present from a very good friend for my birthday. Although the questions are completely absurd in some cases, the answers are scientifically correct, and I like it. The last reason is that Randall Munroe is the creator of xkcd comic.
This book is totally engaging. You read one answer, and if you read the next question… they you are done, you need to red next answer and so on.
The best thing is that it keeps using the same jokes he developed in the xkcd comic, and even using completely accurate answers, they can be understood by everybody with minimum physics knowledge.
One of the best videos of Vi Hart. Published this nigth! Don’t miss it.
A few days ago I show you Sixty Symbols of physics, a poject to show physics through it’s symbols and videos. Today I bring a similar webpage for numbers and math.
Numberphile is a project to show funny math things trough short videos about a small funny thing. This are the ones I selected.
This last video was made by ViHart. She is quite famous and has very good videos about math, and all of them are cute, so also visit her channel.
the Brick In the Sky 