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Joseph Guibord vs Mgr Ignace Bourget

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

#EnCeJour 1869, décès de Joseph Guibord. Autour de la dépouille mortelle de ce typographe se livrera la dernière et la plus féroce bataille entre l’école libérale de l’Institut canadien de Montréal et l’école ultramontaine de Mgr Ignace Bourget : https://t.co/GvARbYg99A pic.twitter.com/s1zwXdtiNm
— Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (@dbc_dcb) November 18, 2020

Histoire des pandémies : les théories du complot ne datent pas d’hier

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

Histoire des pandémies : les théories du complot ne datent pas d’hier

The Woman Who Built The Brooklyn Bridge

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

Who here remembers this from the 90s?

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

Who here remembers this from the 90s? pic.twitter.com/DnCVA5BB8F
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) November 18, 2020

The SHOCKING Truth About Ben Franklin and the Kite

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

Why has inequality grown?

Posted on 2020/11/19 by Carl Robitaille

Why has inequality grown?

Hubmer, Krusell & Smith have an answer:

"We find that the significant drop in tax progressivity starting in the late 1970s is the most important driver of the increase in wealth inequality since then"@nberpubs #EconTwitter https://t.co/gGaxu7wxIG pic.twitter.com/TiHN1dq3DX
— Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) November 16, 2020

Le calcul qui divise : 6÷2(1+2) – Micmaths

Posted on 2020/11/17 by Carl Robitaille

Petroleum referred to as “dinosaur juice”?

Posted on 2020/11/17 by Carl Robitaille

Have you seen images like this before? Or heard petroleum referred to as "dinosaur juice"? Well, while most petroleum is formed from ancient animals, it's not from liquified dinosaurs… #PetroleumDay pic.twitter.com/P3DDVFI5Yz
— Eons (@EonsShow) November 17, 2020

Walmart’s revenue: 1962: $975,000 in its first year, 2020: $975,000 every 58 seconds

Posted on 2020/11/17 by Carl Robitaille

Walmart’s revenue:

1962: $975,000 in its first year

2020: $975,000 every 58 seconds pic.twitter.com/wG7zdMPXcS
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) November 17, 2020

Some of the notations used for the cube root

Posted on 2020/11/16 by Carl Robitaille

Here are some of the notations used for the cube root:

℞³ – Chuquet 🇫🇷 (1484)
℞3ᵃ – Pacioli 🇮🇹 (1494)
℞ cub. – Cardan 🇮🇹 (1545)
w√ – Rudolff 🇩🇪 (1525)
∛ – Girard 🇫🇷 (1629)
√3.) – Harriot 🇬🇧 (1631)
√C – Descartes 🇫🇷 (1637)
√³ – Wallis 🇬🇧 (1655)
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) November 16, 2020