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Sean at 11:45 am, February 8th, 2007

Jessica Hagy illustrates the vagaries of life via mathematical doodles on index cards.



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  1. Ambitwistor on Feb 8th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

    Inspired by that blog, see Le Grand Content.

  2. citrine on Feb 8th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    Love the first card. Don’t quite get the second. Isn’t Wm. Tell a proper subset of all men?

  3. Plato on Feb 8th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Second may mean, that men should learn about love getting to the heart of their understanding, or, the arrow can go astray?:)

  4. adam on Feb 8th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    http://xkcd.com/comics/fourier.jpg

    Always makes me laugh.

  5. Plato on Feb 8th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Just to expand on #3, if the issues of life were thought so confusing for men, how could one not become confused with “all the data out there?” William Tell, Cupid, Men…hmmm?

    It’s a “entanglement issue,” while getting to the heart of things, a woman might ask, “men, where is your heart” and the men may say, “I dunno?” :)

    That’s one excuse, eh?

  6. I. P. Daly on Feb 8th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    If you don’t get the second one you are probably thinking on too high a level.

  7. Joshua R on Feb 9th, 2007 at 2:01 am

    been reader her stuff for a while. pretty much always funny or cute, or creepily accurate. she inspired my newest project - definitions. She never seems to have slumps eitherm there all consistantly good.

  8. jackd on Feb 9th, 2007 at 10:33 am

    That first card also captures the common rhetorical trick of claiming that a high Y value proves that you’ve got a high X value. See for example pretty much everything published by the Discovery Institute.

  9. Lauren Gunderson on Feb 9th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    God that’s funny. AND SO TRUE… The true flux of reputation is keenly conveyed in that first graph. Ha!



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