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🦠₁₉ is winning and 🤥₄₅ is losing.

When the numbers of infections and deaths in the US are surging, while Donald J. Trump’s poll numbers are heading south, when it should be the other round if he was not obsessed with his re-election prospects and valued human lives.

When a corrupt and inept president, who puts profits and polls above principles and people, has a cavalier attitude vis-à-vis his diehard supporters, most of whom refuse to wear a mask and to practice social distancing at his political rallies, considering that he himself flirted with death after he tested positive for the coronavirus—it is no surprise that 🦠₁₉ is winning and 🤥₄₅ is losing.

by MathPlus October 17, 2020

Covid-19 Is Not Sick of Us.

While the world is tired and sick of her, Ms. Corona is healthier and deadlier than ever to prolong her existence on the planet, by seducing more maskless victims; and she is even prepared to journey with those who are heading to the fiery side of eternity.

The coronavirus desires to live and linger among the earthlings, especially those who have faith in pseudoscience and conspiracies—although we are sick of her, Covid-19 is not sick of us.

by MathPlus November 10, 2020

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

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

Maskism

When the authorities try to indoctrinate an oft-frightened or semi-informed lay public that mask-wearing is mandatory to protect them against the coronavirus, regardless of whether they are vaccinated or not, even though their knowledge with regard to the extent to which masking is effective against deadlier variants of the virus is half-baked.

With rising infection and mortality rates in spite of a decent rate of vaccination in the population, a number of governments in the West are turning to maskism to contain the corona crisis in the face of deadlier variants.

by MathPlus July 27, 2021

Imaginary Tales

Fictional stories or plots whose characters are the complex numbers or imaginary numbers—conversations among these once-ostracized numbers among mathematicians would allow listeners or readers to get intimate with their beautiful numerical properties.

Mrs. Jones thought that teaching complex numbers via imaginary tales might be a more interesting and creative way to introduce these “fictional numbers” to her students.

by MathPlus December 27, 2017

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