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Battitude

The habit of coming out at night to prey on your victims, when they are more vulnerable to predators and less likely to identify and chase after them.
Jack has this battitude of pickpocketing old folks and tourists on weekends, at crowded night markets to reduce his chances of being caught.
by MathPlus April 24, 2018
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Coronademia

When women submitted fewer academic papers to journals across a multitude of fields than their male counterparts during the lockdown for whatever unpublished or unspoken reasons.
Editors of both math and science journals notice the coronademia syndrome in both developed and developing countries, when men submitted up to 50% more articles than women.
by MathPlus March 17, 2021
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Mathematical Pointillism

The use of small dots rather than a pen, pencil, or Sharpie marker to depict a numeral, geometric figure, formula, or math concept.
Even artists who are allergic to school math could demonstrate their numerical, geometric, or formulaic creativity through mathematical pointillism.
by MathPlus July 9, 2021
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North Korean Variant

When Dictator Kim’s rogue scientists are covertly working on a few hybrids of presently known corona variants with the aim of releasing them into unfriendly nations that want to end his three-generation dynasty, or that refuse to remove any trade sanctions against the recluse kingdom.
What are the odds that the detection of the deadliest North Korean variant on US shores and those of its allies could lead to the flattening of Pyongyang?
by MathPlus May 31, 2021
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Mask Therapy

When someone deliberately uses masks to ignite their creativity, such as donning a face mask while venturing in the wilderness or in an open air surrounding, with no one around, in the hope of getting some novel ideas for a project, or of experiencing an aha to a wicked problem.
After being stuck for weeks with an unsolved math problem, Prof. Dean decided to go for a mask therapy, by trekking some off-campus mountainous region, and hoping to be rewarded with some insight during the trip.
by MathPlus June 21, 2021
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Math Is a Verb

When the world’s most disliked school subject is not a spectator but a player sport; when you need to do math rather than just read about it—the very reason why pop or general math books seldom help raise the mathematical or quantitative literacy of their armchair readers.
Recreationally speaking, math is a noun, but painfully or cognitively speaking, math is a verb—reading and understanding a math proof is one thing; guessing and checking and failing repeatedly and finally proving or solving a math problem is the actual thing.
by MathPlus December 28, 2020
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I Got My Sinovac Shot

The slogan printed on a badge, mask, or T-shirt worn by most CCP members, who want to proudly announce to the world that they have faith in their homemade half-baked vaccine, which has yet to be WHO-approved—in the name of vaccine nationalism, no health risks would deter them from being jabbed.
In a number of cities with a significant number of foreigners, outside local hospitals, vaccinated residents are offered a “I Got My Sinovac Shot” sticker for putting their trust in their locally made life-saving product.
by MathPlus March 26, 2021
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