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A coffee mug is a mathematical donut! 🍩 +more about the study of knots

You can make a camera out of an orange 🍊

Art made by kids, using equations (yes, you've probably seen some before and yes, I am still impressed by these)

This amazing video explaining the golden ratio and how nature is designed in the most specifically random order.  THIS ONE BLEW MY MIND🤯 

Does comedy kill? This study found an inverse relationship between how funny someone is and longevity-- showing that people rated as funnier by the public die sooner. Likely, this can be explained because mental health/personality traits that contribute to their comedic ability also affect longevity. 

This site that explains the prisoner's dilemma

Playlist of Kahoot Theme Remixes to troll your students- Sicko Mode, Sweet Dreams, and Godzilla are my favorites. I didn't listen to them all the way through, so you might have to check if they are censored before playing them in class. Imagine how funny it would be to 'reward' your students with them.

Funny graphs showing correlation ≠ causation. Divorce rate in Maine correlates almost directly to per capita consumption of margarine.

Fun website where you can make different rhythms (I think it sounds good no matter what!)

This piece of writing (advertisement? love poem?) that I keep thinking about

Insane patterns that occur in word frequency, population size, etc. Things we think are random are not!

If you also happen to be a middle/high school teacher: my favorite math lesson of all time!!! 🍔

This conspiracy of the McRib as an arbitrage strategy

And along that same note, this deep dive into the McDonald's ice cream machine conspiracy