Alistair Kwan rarely logs in here.

@pickover sounds cheaper than paying a university to get only the tiniest fraction of that, and needing to wait through several years of courses to find out that that fraction is even tinier than you had hoped for

Would you pay $1000 to instantly have a complete, profound, and deep understanding of this equation, including the equation's history and applications — and implications for science, philosophy, consciousness, and other domains of knowledge?

@aktange This sort of advice is typical of famous authors who have no idea how they write, and no idea how to teach. Some editor has imagined profits in suggesting that they write their intuitive knack down. The money's is in the author, not the content.

@AmitaYoshi @YanHeCUL it's very much how I'd imagine chinoiserie might look, had it arisen in art deco times

@YanHeCUL my opinion，whatever this means,is not real 篆體 but a parody,someone not familiar with篆 did this.it might be 功我孟，耶穌十二市徒x經宝--when translated in 楷體

Anyone knows these Chinese characters, writing style and which time period they are from? Many thanks for your help!

@johnmdudley Aerodynamics?

Guess what I'll be doing this afternoon?

@KyleDChurch He's eating the photographer's lunch.

Why tf did he unwrap the burger and just put it back down? Why are the nuggets tipped out away from him? Mfer reaching over the top of the box for a nugget and then eating it dry with no dipping sauce

@edtechmathteach @Jennw1983 I did graduate work in both, and in education. I find them identical. The reason why they look different is because we rarely get deep enough into the other side, and often not even into our own side, to see what it really is.

@Jennw1983 I can totally see that. STEM is a different beast than the humanities.

Honestly, letter grades mean absolutely nothing to me anymore. We need to move to standards based grading across the board. #teachertwitter #iteachmath

And these things catalogued as "opium pipes" – I have a strong feeling that they're actually water pipes for tobacco. That raises an interesting question: why are they catalogued as opium pipes in museums all around the world – curator/collector fetish?

What can #museums do that individual #collections can't? What counts as "Chinese" in New Zealand? Yes, we all know that #Chinese people came here – but who went there? stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/30…

@pickover NZQAR: New Zealand Qualifications Authority Rort.

Welcome to Mathematics. Meditate on the image below. What mind-boggling question or observation does it inspire in you? Figure by Keith Enevoldsen, thinkzone.wlonk.com, cc by-sa 4.

Imagine a Pacific Language Week that focussed only on Samoan. Therein lies the problem with Chinese Language Week in NZ. The Chinese, diaspora and otherwise are not a monolith and it would be weird if they were.

@odavies9 There could be a worthwhile agitation in asking students for directions to their offices, and playing politely and apologetically helpless about not having anywhere appropriate to meet.

Now that the university has taken away our offices, I'm thinking of creative new "office hours" for students: 12-12:30pm - meet me by the bike rack 12:30-1pm - I'll be loitering by the sports lockers 1pm-1:30pm - see me in the folding chair by my car

@WgtnChineseHist I learnt Italian in Melbourne where it's taught as an Australian heritage language. It kept the department lively. This article is of the view that Chinese isn't a New Zealand heritage language. That might help to explain why our departments are nearly dead.

@JulesBass6 or hire an editor.

If I could give aspiring scientists and trainees one piece of advice it would be this: Find a mentor who cares enough about you to do this 👇 #Mentorship #AcademicChatter #PhysicianScientist #CareerAdvice

@SeanSturm @NZNationalParty It would be so nice if rentals didn't get exempted from the Consumer Guarantees Act. I would love some refunds.

With National, people on the Jobseeker unemployment benefit will face sanctions if they refuse to look for work.

@AucklandIsland Easy: not Christians.

So conservatives, many christians, intend voting for a party who tells lies, hide their costings, rewards the rich while giving peanuts to widows and orphans. How can they? I don't get it.

Terrible news. The last speaker of the Beḷāra language (an underdescribed South Dravidian language presumed to be closely related to Tulu), Sidda Beḷāra, has passed away.

@sthnjade there's also this one in 'proper' Mandarin for people whose ancestors came during the imperial era. At least one imperial mandarin was appointed in New Zealand teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/… #NZCLW

@sthnjade How's this? #NZCLW #savecantonese

#NZCLW seeks to make invisible the 180-plus years that Chinese have been in Aotearoa New Zealand by trying to define that Chinese New Zealanders only speak Mandarin. #savecantonese

@hellomotorbike At that age, I was hired as a computer tech and sent out alone to do work that no one else in the company except my boss could do. Clients paid them the same. The youth wage for same or better work is clearly an employee-funded business subsidy.

Hipkins is quite right. The students I teach work their arses off for companies like Countdown and Maccers and deserve the same pay for the same work.