Daily Blend: Friday, June 22, 2012

Gabe Suarez

Awesome: Cracked.com explains why the popular claim that men have three times as many sexual partners as women do is completely (mathematically) impossible.

Former SWAT officer ^[pictured]: Wanna avoid paramilitary-style police raids at 3 AM? Don’t live in a poor neighborhood (you druggie).
(via @radleybalko)

Clinton, N.C. third-grader strip-searched in public by assistant principal over a missing $20.
(via @radleybalko)

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Tags: Cracked.com • Dennis Hong • sex • men • women • Gabe Suarez • SWAT • Special Weapons And Tactics • police raids • no-knock warrants • Justin Cox • strip-searches • Clarinda Cox • Union Elementary School • Teresa Holmes

Nature by Numbers: Mathematics in the natural world

This video is almost enough to convince me that mathematics aren’t the spawn of the devil. (Almost.)

(via Bad Astronomy)