Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

And here's another book I’ve just finished, for anyone who has studied (or is studying) maths. It’s a lovely gallop through the parts of mathematical history that we don’t hear about, steering away from the stories that focus on the “Great Men” of the white western world, and digging around in a far more global and diverse view of how mathematics was developed. Especially highly recommended for anyone teaching maths at any level. It’s out in a couple of weeks. #maths #books #history

This is amazing so please boost

The Banned Book Club is a project of the Digital Public Library of America. You download their Palace e-reader and choose Banned Book Club as your #library. It gives you access to all (most?) of them plus others

I guess if you live in a liberal state you might not need it but it's worth checking out
#bookstodon #books #reading #BannedBooks

https://lithub.com/the-banned-books-club-is-an-e-reader-app-that-can-get-you-over-the-firewall/

Kinda cool logging onto my server in the morning and there are a bunch of other people who have already posted National Weather Service outlooks/forecasts/etc. #wx #weather

Just like the Antarctic sea ice graphs and the North Atlantic ocean temperature graphs — both of which you've probably seen — the graph below is almost unbelievably stunning and ominous.

What you have here are the top 30 hottest months ever recorded. The last one shown is this month, July of 2023, and it's WAY above any of the others.

A global temperature rise of .32°C in a single month doesn't even seem like it should be possible. But that's what is happening. That's the dire new world we're living in.

🚨 This is a climate emergency.🚨

GRAPH SOURCE -- https://climate.copernicus.eu/july-2023-sees-multiple-global-temperature-records-broken

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Hey 👋

If you've got 10 minutes to spare, would you consider taking this *unofficial* survey about Mastodon? It talks about the advanced interface, but you can fill it in even if you've never heard of it.

Also, please boost this message so that as many relevant people as possible can fill it in! Thanks in advance #StanOnAdvancedInterface

https://forms.signez.fr/advanced-interface/

How Doers Get More Done! lol

Happy #Caturday

When I was gardening yesterday, I heard a strange sound on the front porch. This is what I found....Milo looking cute as can be.

#cat #cats #caterday #catlovers #catlover #kitty #kittycat #kitten #kittens #meow #purr #pets #cute #fun #funny

Banning accounts that report on Nazis now

https://splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/07/27/neo-nazi-ex-marine-buys-land-rural-maine-blood-tribe

BUST MONOPOLIES,
NOT UNIONS!

@peterdutoit @zleap
Hopefully, the surprises ahead or how fast humans will now start choosing to decarbonize. #WeCanDoThis if enough of us choose to do so.

I said Move! #linux

not to sound like a huge communist but I don’t think millions of us should have to die hungry and in debt so a couple dudes with really really really big boats can have really really really really big boats

You may have heard that Houston schools plan to convert libraries to disciplinary centers and fire the librarians.

What you may not have heard is that the State of Texas took over the Houston school district and installed its own superintendent.

That's the guy who is closing libraries. This is not something local residents want, and the superintended is not locally accountable,

#txpol #texas #houston #library #libraries

One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO

It's a running joke in math that many books and lectures start with something like "1+1=2" then 15 min later no one has any idea what's going on.

If you have learned how to learn mathematics you know there is a lot to engage with in that early simple content-- but many students take it as a signal to just tune out--

If the teacher is excited enough and conveys that more is happening? Well sometimes you can get them on board. And that's when the real fun begins.

Some students have been traumatized by either always feeling lost in some subjects OR feeling like they are doing something so simple and boring it's pointless. Their sweet spot has shrunk to a razor's edge. You need to be very responsive and observant to get them engaged again. It's almost like putting on a show-- that magic content that's simple but raises complex questions.

But just getting them engaged isn't enough-- you also need to help them to expand their comfort zone.

I got curious: how much more money do we human pay for seeds than birds? So...

One bag of sunflower seeds (for baking): 71.29 DKK/kg (€9.65)
One bag of sunflower seeds (for birds): 15.98 DKK/kg (€2.14)

@georgetakei Time to raise inheritance taxes on the ultra wealthy.