indexed

By Sean Carroll | February 8, 2007 11:45 am

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



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  • Ambitwistor

    Inspired by that blog, see Le Grand Content.

  • citrine

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

  • http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2007/01/image-eot-wash-group-university-of.html Plato

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

  • adam

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

    Always makes me laugh.

  • http://eskesthai.blogspot.com/2007/02/democritus-had-passion-and-heat.html Plato

    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?

  • I. P. Daly

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

  • http://definitions.wordpress.com Joshua R

    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.

  • jackd

    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.

  • http://www.laurengunderson.com Lauren Gunderson

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

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About Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include theoretical aspects of cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His most recent book is The Particle at the End of the Universe, about the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Here are some of his favorite blog posts, home page, and email: carroll [at] cosmicvariance.com .

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