eltigrechico:

sugashane:

You didn’t use Google or any other internet search site today?

You didn’t use a cell phone today?

You didn’t use a computer today?

You didn’t listen to your iPod today?

You didn’t use GPS today?

You didn’t play any video games today?

You didn’t walk through any doorways today? 

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Just because you aren’t using algebra doesn’t mean algebra isn’t being used for you. 

I don’t think the point of this JOKE was to say that algebra has no use. I think it was saying more that for many many people, algebra is not necessary knowledge in their lives.

In the same way that engineering is important, but most of us can go about our lives just fine while knowing JACK SHIT about the subject.

It’s a stupid joke. 

I don’t like the dismissive attitude towards things that are in to everyday life just because the average person doesn’t have to use that knowledge themselves. 

Kids say this stuff all the time, usually around the age that they should be developing their math skills and figuring out what they want to do in life. Then they hear and see all these idiots stating that things like “algebra” aren’t used in every day life and think that the pursuit of algebra isn’t worthwhile. 

And this is why we have a doomed country. Half a billion people who use technology but have no clue how to design or build it and they’re completely dismissive of how it’s even done. 

This post might have been a joke, but the overall attitude towards things like algebra, calculus, physics, etc, is ignorant. I’ve heard it and seen it since I was in school (a long time ago). People think these skills/knowledge are unimportant and rarely used. 

Irks the shit out of me. 

You didn’t use Google or any other internet search site today?

You didn’t use a cell phone today?

You didn’t use a computer today?

You didn’t listen to your iPod today?

You didn’t use GPS today?

You didn’t play any video games today?

You didn’t walk through any doorways today? 

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Just because you aren’t using algebra doesn’t mean algebra isn’t being used for you. 

(via michaelangerlo)

Wrong. The answer cannot be either/or. The real answer is 9. 

There is something in math called Order of Operations or PEMDAS. 

Parentheses first, then Exponents and then Multiplications and Divisions and then Additions and Subtractions. 

Division and Multiplication rank equally (and go left to right). Addition and Subtraction rank equally (and go left to right)

This equation is just written in silly fashion but it breaks down like this:

6/2(1+2)=?

6/2(3)=?

3(3)=?

= 9

- Sha

lalibertarienne:

darthnisaa:

Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?

Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:

• Coffee

• Cameras

• Experimental Physics

• Chess

• Soap

• Shampoo

• Perfume/spirits

• Irrigation

• Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons

• Combination locks

• Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)

• Surgical instruments

• Anesthesia

• Windmill

• Treatment of Cowpox

• Fountain pen

• Numbering system

• Algebra/Trigonometry

• Modern Cryptology

• 3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)

• Crystal glasses

• Carpets

• Checks

• Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.

• University
• Optics
• Music
• Toothbrush
• Hospitals
• Bathing
• Quilting
• Mariner’s Compass
• Soft drinks
• Pendulum
• Braille
• Cosmetics
• Plastic surgery
• Calligraphy
• Manufacturing of paper and cloth

It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.

It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.

It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.

It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.

It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.

It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.

It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey

It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.

It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.

The list goes on………..

Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Andreas Brevik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!

Sources:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf

I don’t know what these have anything to do with the religion. I think the proper word should arab, since it was arabic people who invented all this. Muslim encompasses so many races and its mostly a religion, not a race, unlike Middle Eastern or Arabic, which is the proper term

Technically, you can’t just caulk it up as “Arabs”, since some of these things were invented by Persians or Turks, who don’t consider themselves Arabs. But all of these inventors had one thing in common, they were Muslim. 

But you are right, religion has little to do with all of these milestones. Most of these people would have contributed to society regardless of what religion they practiced. 

Every time I want to go back to school, this image pops up in my mind. 

(via silum)