Replacing "the-the" with "if-then" in these cases seems to take the punch out of them

If you're into moody portraits of birds, click this. I love the lyrebird portfolio. birdlifephotoaward.org.au/gallery-winner…

Very much agree. In my view the point of school education is to give kids a glimpse of what is out there. To give them a chance to broaden themselves. Can't do that if you stick you what you know/like. And some things you get a glimpse of may not interest you until much later.

To put 2023 into perspective, here's a brief timeline of the entire future in 23 key moments:

An online math community faced a problem-solving dilemma when it was asked a simple question: How can you chop a square into four similar rectangles? nyti.ms/3RF8n3F

My 2yo now knows the word thagomizer.

watching these spools dance the maypole

This week's quote is from Karl Popper: "Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it."

My 2.5yo asked for "the goodnight book", didn't know which one she meant until she clarified: "goodnight lab" Chris Ferrie

Invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905, the Rubens tube graphically shows the relationship between sound waves and sound pressure, as a primitive oscilloscope This is a demonstration with a trumpet [read more: buff.ly/43wkxRX] x.com/moistonig/stat…

Cockatiels, I have mixed feelings about these birds- yes they are the smallest species of cockatoo- we cannot hold that against them. Seeing enormous flocks of these bird is almost as thrilling as seeing budgies. I will concede they are quite good parrots. #WorldParrotDay

I know this is about something important in conservation, but I was just struck by the beauty of these photos. Love those colours

Join us for the National Science Quiz. Sunday, 27 August 2023 @ 3:30-5:00pm AEST. Attend in-person at The Capitol, Melbourne. Tix now on sale. U18s free! Join remotely via live stream online. Register for the link. nationalsciencequiz.com.au #science #prizes #quiz Charlie Pickering

This thread just keeps giving.

I misread this as "what is the largest size dice you can fit" - might be an interesting problem? (Maybe without the folding bit)

Dave Richeson There's a really neat way of deriving the equation for one of these - describe all lines generally in terms of, say, k, write the line equation as a quadratic in k, and use the discriminant - the plane is split into 'contains such lines' and 'doesn't', exactly at the curve.

Ravens can talk (buff.ly/3SYCt2b) but sometimes they even know how to sing, like this one trained by Giuseppe Cassini [source: buff.ly/3bYHCH2]