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The whole idea of the lesson, which I'm very passionate about is making irrational numbers like root two and root three seem... real. Both as "real numbers" but also as ... real numbers, physical distances that make as much sense as 4 cm or 1/3 of an inch.

In fact I will take these to school and make it THEIR problem. I have a whole box of materials and notes for possible future lessons, and if I put them all in one place I'll be more likely to get them written up and ready to go so other teachers might use them.

I've told the other math teachers about how we should do this and they sort of nod along but I suspect they have no idea what I'm talking about.

But if I show them a ruler with root two on it it'll be clear enough I think.

THIS is why cleaning is so difficult. I bought these blank ruler-sized pieces of wood six years ago. I have an idea for a lesson where students use a compass to create a ruler, including irrational numbers, such as square root of two I should write the lesson up and make the sample ruler **or** throw these away. I will write myself a note about this and put them in the “soon trash” box. I need to be ruthless!

Do you ever wish you were a lovely river fish with a face like a shovel just eating everything smaller than you and no upper limit on how big you could grow?

The water is muddy and murky but you have whiskers and you can feel the other fish in the water.

Someday you dream of eating a man in one of those "fish fear me" hats, if he'd just wade in deep enough for once.

@catsalad

*angry old lady noises*

"For a long time we thought they were like trees. After all, humans are very large."

"And you can climb on them!"

"And you can lick nectar off of them!"

"I've never heard of THAT. Anyway. We realized we were wrong. Humans are not intelligent like trees. Trees will warn each other of danger. Trees don't destroy their environment and die in huge numbers."

"But don't we ants die in huge numbers in our wars?"

"That's TOTALLY different."

"But what if humans have wars?"

"Preposterous!"

"He burned our libraries. Why did he do that? It's so destructive. Can you think of anything more evil?"
"I can, child. There is something worse than burning a library."
"How!"
"It happened long ago, this was a time when books were not rare as they are today. Everyone had hundereds of books."
"Hundreds! No!"
"Thousands."
"Oh!"
"So, the new kings realized they couldn't possibly destroy all of the books. They would always miss a few."
"What did they do?"

#slopocalypse #microfiction

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The three wise ants are now in color! Next years’s Christmas card is going to be amazing.

There are places deep in the earth where the water is crystal clear or it would be, if there were any light. All of the sediment, all of the dust has settled long ago. All of the gasses have escaped. These hidden volumes of water, like houses. Like the space between bridges. The space between you and the sky. Huge empty spaces that are not empty. Frozen glass. The water is still. The water is silent. The water is transparent as the mountain air on a starless, moonless, windless night.

What did you expect?

I may be from the USA, but the flag that stirs my heart most is the flag of San Francisco, Antioquia, Colombia... they must be the most remarkable wise people to have such a perfect flag.

The other reason I'm skeptical is ants have very poor vision with a few notable exceptions. I don't know if ant would react to a mirror at all. I will try this with "the girls" later today and see what happens. Will post about this again.

Here is the paper. It was widely discussed ... on reddit for a long time I didn't think it was real.

Ants are painted with dots that match their exoskeletons, some are painted with blue dots. The ants are observed interacting with a mirror.

I've seen this experiment mentioned as a reason why calling the mirror dot test a "test for self awareness" is flawed: a lot of people really don't like this result.

Still, the journal gives me pause. What do you think?

https://www.journalofscience.net/showpdf/MjY4a2FsYWkxNDc4NTIzNjk=

There is a really crazy paper where they did the "mirror dot" test for self recognition on ants. BUT. It's in the "Journal of Science" which isn't "Science" ... and it's odd to have an insect paper not in an insect journal.

And this is their webpage:

journal of science - Home

International Journal of Pharmacy

(www.journalofscience.net)

Listen I just want this paper to be real, but it's kind of out there and the journal IDK.

Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build.

I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness.

I gotta find the right project!

Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures

I couldn’t stand it

BUDGET

Super Majorettes Ant Cheer Squad:

Snacks $80
Transportation $8
Boots $14,987
Hats $384
Batons $127
Epaulettes $86

It was the most popular after school activity, but we had to cancel it due to the ballooning budget for boots.

@starry1086

Can you imagine?
Six little white cowboy boots with pom poms on em?
A little band major hat with feathers?

The chaotic prancing!!

Super Majorettes!

Thinking of making a subgroup for posting images of solider ants "Super Majors Who All Share One Mushroom Body"

(this is one of them deep cut ant jokes, pat yourself on the back if you get it)