Philosophy

Said Plato: “These things that we feel

Are not ontologically real,

But just the excresence

Of numinous essence

Our senses can never reveal.”

via Futility Closet

Calculus

The integral z-squared dz

From one to the cube root of 3

Times the cosine

Of three pi over nine

Is the log of the cube root of e.

via Scott Franklin

Biology

Planktonic cells are all alone;

More typically in biofilms grown.

Bacterial masses

Whose abundance surpasses

The weight of all elephants known.

via Brendan Niemira

A prime number

Two quintillion, seventy-seven

Quadrillion, three hundred eleven

Trillion, one billion,

Twenty-four million,

One thousand two hundred and seven.

via Andrew

Topology

The topological part of my brain

Finds Möbius strips quite a strain.

But I make you this pledge:

I’ll glue one at its edge

And build a real projective plane.

By Richard Elwes

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