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XKCD

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I’ve been a big fan of Dilbert for years now, but I recently found a great webcomic that I’ve started reading daily called XKCD. The tagline is: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. The drawings are simple stick figures, but it is the situations and ideas that are interesting and funny.

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May 30, 2007 at 12:56 pm

Caltech Physicists Successfully Split the Bill

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PASADENA, CA—Sequestered in a private booth at a Pasadena-area Cheesecake Factory for nearly 25 minutes, a party of eight California Institute of Technology physicists emerged exhausted but visibly excited Friday evening after successfully splitting the bill…

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September 29, 2006 at 11:10 am

Posted in Humor, Physics, Web

The Colbert Report – Donut Mathematics

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September 29, 2006 at 12:01 am

Posted in Humor, Math, Videos

Mathematics Genius

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This blog post has a short collection of very creative mathematics done by students. The last one is my favorite.

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September 26, 2006 at 9:52 pm

Posted in Humor, Math