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  1. Counterintuitive life hack: Embrace moderate pain (cold showers, HIIT) for lasting pleasure. High quality is cheaper than poor. Lying is evolved. Overlove hurts kids. 🧊 #Counterintuitive #LifeHacks #Psychology

  2. Interesting paper from 2012 (and how much has changed since then?): "swing voters" might not actually exist, or at least not in any meaningful numbers. This paper makes a case that "swing voters" are an illusion created by the research methods and statistics used by polling organizations.

    researchdmr.com/MythicalSwingV

    #uspol #swingvoters #election #statistics #dataanalysis #surprise #counterintuitive

  3. Math makes ‘obvious’ things false. Imagine an object with finite volume but infinite surface area. Gabriel’s Horn is an interesting and beautiful object with infinite space but finite volume. It is explained as “you can’t finish Gabriel’s Horn when you want to paint it, but if you put this much paint in it, you can fill it so that it will be painted.” It is formed by rotating the \(y=\frac1x\) graph around the x-axis. There is a nice demonstrative project on Wolfram Alpha about Gabriel’s Horn. [Link: demonstrations.wolfram.com/Gab] Also, if you want to read more about “Paradoxes of the Infinite”, you can check Paolo Mancosu’s book, Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. [Link: amazon.com/Philosophy-Mathemat]

    #GabrielHorn #SurfaceArea #Volume #CounterIntuitive #Maths #Mathematics

  4. Math makes ‘obvious’ things false. Imagine an object with finite volume but infinite surface area. Gabriel’s Horn is an interesting and beautiful object with infinite space but finite volume. It is explained as “you can’t finish Gabriel’s Horn when you want to paint it, but if you put this much paint in it, you can fill it so that it will be painted.” It is formed by rotating the \(y=\frac1x\) graph around the x-axis. There is a nice demonstrative project on Wolfram Alpha about Gabriel’s Horn. [Link: demonstrations.wolfram.com/Gab] Also, if you want to read more about “Paradoxes of the Infinite”, you can check Paolo Mancosu’s book, Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. [Link: amazon.com/Philosophy-Mathemat]

    #GabrielHorn #SurfaceArea #Volume #CounterIntuitive #Maths #Mathematics

  5. Math makes ‘obvious’ things false. Imagine an object with finite volume but infinite surface area. Gabriel’s Horn is an interesting and beautiful object with infinite space but finite volume. It is explained as “you can’t finish Gabriel’s Horn when you want to paint it, but if you put this much paint in it, you can fill it so that it will be painted.” It is formed by rotating the \(y=\frac1x\) graph around the x-axis. There is a nice demonstrative project on Wolfram Alpha about Gabriel’s Horn. [Link: demonstrations.wolfram.com/Gab] Also, if you want to read more about “Paradoxes of the Infinite”, you can check Paolo Mancosu’s book, Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. [Link: amazon.com/Philosophy-Mathemat]

    #GabrielHorn #SurfaceArea #Volume #CounterIntuitive #Maths #Mathematics

  6. Math makes ‘obvious’ things false. Imagine an object with finite volume but infinite surface area. Gabriel’s Horn is an interesting and beautiful object with infinite space but finite volume. It is explained as “you can’t finish Gabriel’s Horn when you want to paint it, but if you put this much paint in it, you can fill it so that it will be painted.” It is formed by rotating the \(y=\frac1x\) graph around the x-axis. There is a nice demonstrative project on Wolfram Alpha about Gabriel’s Horn. [Link: demonstrations.wolfram.com/Gab] Also, if you want to read more about “Paradoxes of the Infinite”, you can check Paolo Mancosu’s book, Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century. [Link: amazon.com/Philosophy-Mathemat]

    #GabrielHorn #SurfaceArea #Volume #CounterIntuitive #Maths #Mathematics

  7. #Debian/#Ubuntu curiosity of the day:

    The command "apt install htop-"

    will actually REMOVE the package htop.

    #APT #CMD #CommandLine #CounterIntuitive

  8. @DrPrestonGreen 1. Amazed this was not an Onion piece. 2. Why in the world would the defendant in this case want to keep working in that insane environment? #toxic #social weirdness #cult #notfun #work #labor #corporate #corporateculture #alienation #labor #counterintuitive