Playing with MATLAB! Thanks to my brother for the idea.
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The technical term for dividing by zero is, of course, “blow things up.” I think that mathematicians use this term to compensate for their destructive tendencies. And, because, let’s just face it: it’s FUN to blow things up!
If science teachers taught more like this, the world would be a happier (and weirder) place.
Whenever somebody says that they understand quantum mechanics, I laugh at them.
The graph, for all those who are curious, was a temperature profile from an experiment that I and a bunch of engineers did together in our university days to study heat transfer on some rods of different compositions.
The graph turned out to be not quite useful, since this was the graph before accounting for error, so it had to be redone. Not quite freedom, after all! However, I couldn’t resist using it as a comic.
The program was MATLAB, also.
The weirdest part about evolution is not the fact that we are relatives to apes. At least my mind can kind of mentally grasp this. After all, we are kind of similar to apes, if you squint.
The weirdest part is that, according to evolution, we came from something that probably started off as a microscopic creature, kind of like archaea or bacteria, but even more simple. It’s just odd.
And my brain still explodes when I think that we have mitochondria DNA, in addition to our regular DNA, in each cell. We live in a very strange world.
After being scared by the dentist one too many times, I sometimes find myself looking up research papers on the benefits of brushing teeth, just so I can feel less annoyed when I stay up too late and then have to brush my teeth. After all, I am preventing heart disease… right?
