{"id":479,"date":"2007-02-19T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T06:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/theres-a-carnival-of-mathematics\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T13:54:41","slug":"theres-a-carnival-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/theres-a-carnival-of-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a Carnival of Mathematics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/akash_k\/125489887\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/48\/125489887_124cf772c5_m.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/akash_k\/125489887\/\">math<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/akash_k\/\">Akash k<\/a>.<br \/>\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I just stumbled across the fact that there&#8217;s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/carnivalofmathematics.wordpress.com\/\">Carnival of Mathematics<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/abstractnonsense.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/09\/carnival-of-mathematics-inaugural-edition\/\">their first edition<\/a> up a bit over a week ago.  The next edition is due to be posted on the 23rd on <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\">Good Math, Bad Math<\/a>.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/thesciencepundit.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/carnival-of-mathematics.html\">The Science Pundit<\/a> for the pointer.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know there&#8217;s no carnival for computing &#8211; does anyone know different?<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>math Originally uploaded by Akash k. I just stumbled across the fact that there&#8217;s a new Carnival of Mathematics, with their first edition up a bit over a week ago. The next edition is due to be posted on the 23rd on Good Math, Bad Math. Thanks to The Science Pundit for the pointer. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/theres-a-carnival-of-mathematics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There&#8217;s a Carnival of Mathematics!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-7J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/02\/26\/hey-i-passed-8th-grade-math-as-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":479,"position":0},"title":"Hey, I passed 8th grade math as well!","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Feb 06","format":false,"excerpt":"So Sub-Evil Boy found this via Pharyngula and was quite pleased that he could already (in the 6th grade) \"pass\" 8th grade math. 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