cairo-overcoat:

cairo-overcoat:

jade harley sent instructions on how to make a cyborg plush bunny to jake and he did it with help from dirk (robotics) and roxy (coding) so forgive me for fixating on jade dirk and roxy being a powerhouse for the WORST and most chaotic creations known to man

heres a list of things they’ve made:

  •  an alarm clock that explodes when you snooze it
  • a robot that can detect where your eye is and shines a laser in it
  • a cat
  • a motorized pumpkin that tries to run into your ankles
  • a peripheral for pesterchum thats just a big keyboard with two buttons that say “yes” and “go on”
  • a robot that builds doorbells and installs them without your approval
  • a cat but it can fly
  • motorized shopping cart
  • a bot that posts your drafts when you use the shower for too long (done without dirk’s approval)
  • a gun but its a lighter
  • a gun but its a camera
  • a camera but its a gun
  • uranium powered coin sorter
  • sentient handmixer (mistake)
  • this:

homestuck youtuber au

abbf26:

john: minecraft letsplays child friendly so he doesnt get demonitised hi guys welcome to lets play minecraft episode 231 today we’re going to finish off this scale model of my house dont forget to like comment and subscribe

jade: that one gardener ignores the laws of nature video but over and over and over again and also shit like this she also has a PHD and is currently pioneering the field of study concerned with making fully artificial food in labs 

rose: melting her lipsticks and boiling them to huff the fumes, getting banned from as many public libraries as she possibly can, knife restoration videos that always start with her knee deep in a river looking for todays knife

dave: this

npr:

Do you remember the day you decided you were no good at math?

Or maybe you had the less common, opposite experience: a moment of math excitement that hooked you for good?

Thousands of studies have been published that touch on the topic of “math anxiety.” Overwhelming fear of math, regardless of one’s actual aptitude, affects students of all ages, from kindergarten to grad school.

This anxiety extends to the daily lives of grown-ups; we put off planning for retirement, avoid trying to understand health risks, try to get out of calculating a tip. And even teachers suffer from math anxiety, which has been shown to hurt their students’ scores, especially when the teachers and the students are both female; the theory is that anxiety interacts with negative stereotypes about women’s abilities.

At Evergreen State College’s Tacoma Program in Washington state, faculty member Paul McCreary assigns students to write a “mini-memoir” of their experiences with math.

He estimates that, on average, 23 students out of a class of 25 enter not liking math. (That’s 92 percent, if you’re keeping track at home. In other words: a lot.)

“In the memoirs, I find: ‘I loved it until sixth grade and after that Mr. Hanrickhan made it impossible,’ ” says McCreary. “So they remember the name of the individual, and sometimes they describe the day that it happened.”

A turning point, that is, where “their interest and love of math fell away.”

Writing it all down helps students put their bad experiences in the past. It also demonstrates, to their instructor and to themselves, that the students have other skills.

Scared Of Math? Here’s One Way To Fight The Fear

Illustration: Deborah Lee/NPR