I printed out Facebook’s terms of service (10 point font or smaller) and attached all the pages together into a single master document, eliminating all blank spaces. (The picture on the bottom shows the first page of this massive undertaking.) Then I took this picture of this enormous monstrosity:
This decision tree is dedicated to Sydjia (hat tip: Matt Dickenson)
The cake pictured below was baked in honor of the great Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, whose abstract art “reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements,” to quote from Wikipedia. (As an aside, both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day of the same year: 12 February 1809!)
Hat tip: @pickover
We have mixed feelings about “Black History Month.” On the one hand, joyous celebrations of so many great heroes (especially unsung heroes) are in order, but at the same time, such celebrations and remembrances should not be confined to a single month. Bravo to Black history writ large!
Source: @CrimeADay (via Twitter)
Hat tip: u/makawakatakanaka, via Reddit
Three of the five are economics courses! The full report by Sophia M. Armenakas (The Crimson) is available here. Without further ado, here are the top five: (1) Economics 10b: “Principles of Economics” (455 students); (2) Life Sciences 1b: “An Integrated Introduction to the Life Sciences” (443 students); (3) Economics 1152: “Big Data” (enrollment number not specified in the Crimson article); (4) Psychology 18: “Abnormal Psychology” (415 students); and (5) Statistics 104: “Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics” (336 students). Postscript: I wonder what the five least popular courses are? Hat tip: Tyler Cowen.
The official press release and the full schedule of the 2019 Grand Chess Tour (GCT) are here.
Hat tip: @Kasparov63
For some strange reason, both of the beautiful Roman-centric maps pictured below the fold popped into my Twitter feed less than two hours apart on 4 February 2019. Hat tips to Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) for the top map, circa 20 A.D., and to Cliff Pickover (@pickover) for the bottom map, circa 43 A.D. Thanks Twitter! Continue reading
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