If you’re one of the 60% of the population that never took Calculus, but want to find out what it’s all about, check out my friend Rob’s Calculus Tutorial. His goal is to make it understandable in a short period of time for a layperson, and he would really appreciate your feedback if you [...]

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Makes me miss New Orleans even more, though I was just there last weekend. Thanks to Will for posting it.

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Sometimes, someone sends you a figure or image of some kind that you need, but it doesn’t look good — the resolution is too low, the background was trimmed off poorly, whatever. You could ask them to fix it, but often they won’t know how, or it won’t be possible to obtain a higher-resolution [...]

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Loveheart?

Originally uploaded by Annie in Beziers

Sort of looks like someone took a heart and dropped it on the pavement.

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I’ve never been any good at sports involving flying objects. I used to think that meant I would never enjoy anything athletic. Of course, I was in pretty bad shape at the time, which didn’t help.
Now I’m in much better shape. I still can barely throw a football or a baseball with any distance or [...]

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