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Infographic | Why Israel's airdrops on Gaza are just an illusion of aid (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 2025-08-12)

euromedmonitor.org/en/article/
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>> From 26 July to 11 August (17 days), Israel, with support from other countries, dropped only 1,218 aid packages into Gaza

>> The 1,218 packages dropped in that period equal … a mere 0.4% of what is actually needed.

>> At this rate, it would take 250 days of airdrops to deliver the same amount of aid Gaza requires in a _single_ day

(in the attached graphic is also a mention of “killings“ by certain airdrops)

#EuroMedHumanRightsMonitor #Mathematics
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German as the language of mathematics.

It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

(I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

Dog-sittting today, for friends.

They have a huge 17th century house with a large garden, in the centre of town. I sit in the garden, enjoying the sun and the friendly breeze and the whole space. Everything here is generous and graceful. I grew up thinking of myself as part of the educated upper middle class, destined to be safe and comfortable. Now I can barely pay my bills, and we can't afford summer holidays. #DownwardlyMobile, your name is Roamer. Part of being an academic in the UK, I accept it.

Today I sit in this beautiful vast garden, harvesting memories of past self-images. I have books with me; van der Waerden's Algebra I, the German edition, since you ask. Mathematics is best expressed in German, and best by writers to whom it is a second language. His German is up there with Thomas Mann or Goethe.

A day off. Quiet reflection. A supremely elegant Saluki by my side. A supremely elegant book in my hands.

📖 **Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life**

"_Giansiracusa, associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University, describes his newest work as an educational book about math, but those who freeze at the mention of mathematics can take heart—this reads like a good yarn. Full of engaging stories about how ideas about calculation took shape, it reveals how algorithms intersect with our everyday lives._"

🔗 kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews.

#Algorithms #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Kirkus ReviewsROBIN HOOD MATH | Kirkus ReviewsBounding through the forest of data, wielding math to right wrongs.

"A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of those sticks can form a triangle? It turns out the answer to this quandary has an unexpected parallel to [the Fibonacci sequence.]"

scientificamerican.com/article

Graphic shows a pine cone viewed from the bottom and traces the spiraling patterns of the scales in clockwise and counterclockwise directions.
Scientific American · Students Find Hidden Fibonacci Sequence in Classic Probability PuzzleBy Emma R. Hasson