This post popped into our news queue just before Christmas, and was forgotten about thanks to the seasonal good cheer. Well, it’s 2015 now, and our Nonsense Formula Disapprove-o-Matic is beeping angrily. We still can’t muster up enough enthusiasm to properly dig into this, so I’ve just tidied up the links I collected earlier on. Eugenia Cheng…
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Is this a nonsense formula for the perfect TV episode?
Stardate November, 2014. These are the continuing adventures of the website The Aperiodical. Its mission: to explore the pages of strange newspapers, to catalogue nonsense formulas, to boldly disapprove of them in ways no blog has done before. What a joy it was to open my browser this morning and see this delicious headline waiting for me: (by…
Oh, Stephen
Professor Stephen Hawking’s name appeared in the papers recently next to some nonsense formula about football, promoting a betting company. Even you, Stephen? Is it as bad as it looks?
Toast Formula Update!
A press release from the Royal Society of Chemistry: Formula for the perfect cheese on toast revealed. Oh dear.
Toast formula
ACHTUNG: This post contains no information which could progress humanity’s understanding of the universe it inhabits. It contains links to several terrible newspapers. I have not fixed any of the issues in the source material, typographical, mathematical, grammatical, or otherwise. We are about to plumb the depths of innumeracy and inanity; consider yourself warned. The Manchester Evening…