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  Me: Can I have one of the eggs you boiled? Daughter: Sure Me: They're very soft boiled. D: I like the yoke runny. Me: Who doesn't like their jokes funny? D:... My kids have had a rough upbringing.

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  It's really worth checking out(?) the oldest running pitch drop experiment (been going since 1927). I can attest to the fact that it's as scintillating in real life as it is via the livestream (jokes aside, the concept/idea whatever, and the fact that someone actually set this up and people have kept it running, is very cool!): https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment #Physics

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  RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/117528773497713476 Gives you a great idea of why a CT Scanner is so loud! #Physics

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  The school I work at is not perfect. However, when you see a lady unloading wheelchairs from a van (to give students a feel of wheelchair basketball) and then a bunch of students who just happened to be passing, offering to help take them to the gym (and then doing a good job of helping)... you know it's a bit different to many schools.

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  #Mathematics To use. or not, a particular axiom, is a choice. Such as the parallel postulate, or... the Axiom of Choice. "To choose, or not to choose, the Axiom of Choice. That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind..."

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  #Mathematics The intro of i = √(-1) is commonly motivated by its historical appearance in solving polynomials. Veritasium did (IMO) a nice explanation of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzklzVXJwo However, for more technical detail/perspectives etc. (but skimming the history) Mathologer's better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-KXStupwsc I emphasise to students there's no perfect resource. Consult multiple, to improve understanding etc. Do you know of other nice resources...

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  Light is like a wave, and sometimes it's like a particle, but actually it's both... but neither... it's its own thing. [Also fulfilling my desire to naturally use "it's its" in a sentence.] #ExplainItWrongButGetItRight #HashTagGames

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  #Mathematics I remember having conversations as a kid that involved the protagonists trying to up each other on the number i.e. "20", "No!, 100"... "No infinity"... "Infinity +1, Ha!" Little did we know: infinity + 1 = infinity at least, sometimes. We would have been even more confused if we had found out that, also, sometimes: infinity + 1 > infinity "Just" search up cardinal, and ord...

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  🎶 Soam, spam, spam, spam, Spam, spam, spam, spam🎶 Monty Python's email inbox.

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  What evil person put an odd number of dog treats in a bag? The dogs are looking at me like it's my fault! Fortunately I learnt of the wisdom of Solomon, and so... the solution was simple, I cut a baby in half... I mean, I cut the dog treat in half. #Dogs

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  Apparently, seeking an even better alignment with FIFAs core principles, they'll be moving the next soccer World Cup to North Korea.

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  @dan@discuss.systems @sharon@discuss.systems @amanda@discuss.systems Prof Cheeto asked me to pass on a message: "Who you calling chonky!" 😀

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  @ElectricTrike@cycle.town Not a good advert for NSW Police - they need reigning in... and yet Minns is egging them on. Minns seems to neither represent his own party and his leadership does not seem to justify a reason for voting Labor over the Coalition. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/09/nsw-police-pepper-spray-protesters-at-sydney-rally-opposing-isaac-herzogs-visit

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  @maxleibman@beige.party Hopefully the phone doesn't show the creases in the fold like the CEO does.

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  @dgar@aus.social By Jove! If that's halfway there, what's the whole way? 😀

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  Posting in the morning in Australia while many others in the world are yet to wake.

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  🧵 Eddington's observations famously confirmed Einstein's prediction of the gravitational deflection of starlight passing near the sun. This was a major step in the acceptance of General Relativity (GR). So it might surprise some to hear that Newton had thought about this a lot earlier! 1/9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment #Physics #Relativity

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  @Remittancegirl I wish I could boost this thread multiple times.

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  @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social "Gen z"? I mean, I know all this "Gen" stuff is rubbish, but I'm "Gen X" and this situation (apart from suspension) is sort of me. I remember going to a meeting where a bunch of people were in suits and ties, I was jeans and an untucked, open shirt (no tie) - a pretty common / classic situation for many on here, I guess. I got asked any question related to what was actually going on. They assumed I knew (which I did) because I did...