Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.
HOT Kitsch slogans in song lyrics
Drinking Wine, Feeling Fine is the Schlager hit of the summer. Coming soon on our new album:
NOT Cryptic insults in song lyrics
Is song 7 a diss track? Who cares?
HOT Bringing supermarket tote bags from the US
Carrefour, Spar and Albert Heijn wondering if they can also charge tourists to their countries $4/bag.
NOT Sending anything to the US
What’s 10% of a worthless magazine? No one knows. $80?
HOT Overleaf going down
The universe is telling you to do something else – anything else. Or at least to install LaTeX on your own machine. (What do you mean, you don’t realhats on your laptop?)
NOT BibTeX warnings
Need to reference a form of media that was created after 1985? Ah, fuhgeddaboudit.
HOT Calling a big screen a ‘jumbotron’
Picking out random members of the class, coming soon to a lecture theatre near you.
NOT Calling a big screen an ‘interactive whiteboard’
Accidentally touch it? Here, let me just skip through your next five slides.
HOT Letting other people make videos of your work
All the credit, and you can still take public transport anonymously.
NOT Having to promote yourself
The bots on Facebook don’t care about your mathematical lunch.
HOT “Good question, I’ll answer that in the break.”
Run away, run away!
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