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How Coindesk's #fakenews got my hyped for no reason: Germany *will* tax you for buying coffee with bitcoin

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2018/01/13/18/55/leather-3080553960720.jpg Pixabay Hey guys, yesterday I came across a quite interesting article by Coindesk headl...

Curious Mathematics: Hedgehogs, why cyclones exist and why 3-dimensional humans can't have nice hair

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/hedgehog-468228960720.jpg Pixabay Hey guys, do some of you happen to have short to medium long hair? If so, I am ...

Variety of lichen - in response to @dber

Hey guys, this is just a short post in reference to @dber's recent airport adventures. Upon reading his last post about the indigenous lichen of Geneva airport ...

There and back again - A steemSTEM meetup at CERN

Good evening to you, After an truly amazing weekend with the steemSTEM community on our meetup an CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, I finally managed to peruse throu...

The significance of mathematics - and why it can prove its own incompleteness

Hey guys, the recent steemSTEM meetup offered so many nice and enlightening conversations about different topics that I even got to discuss mathematics for a wh...

SteemSTEM Meetup - Things to visit in Geneva

Hey guys, the SteemSTEM meetup is coming up and the last time I presented some attractions outside of the scientific domain to discover in the vicinity of lake ...

SteemSTEM Meetup - Historic things to visit around Geneva

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/05/24/14/03/lake-2340581960720.jpg Pixabay The first SteemSTEM meetup is imminent to take place next week in and around Genev...

Polybius Bank to establish headquarters in Brussels, Belgium

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/07/27/20/58/brussels-1546290960720.jpg Pixabay Hey guys, after a long period of medial absence an interesting piece of inform...

Bitconnect finally collapses - Texas State Securities Board issues 'Emergency Cease and Desist' order

%20price%2C%20charts%2C%20market%20cap%2C%20and%20other%20metrics%20CoinMarketCap(1).png) Coinmarketcap.com, Bitconnect, taken on Jan 17 2018 Hey guys, on an ev...

Freedom in life - Epictetus

Pixabay By our very nature we are inclined to measure contentment by the proportion of our satisfied desires. But there are two inequivalent facets of being con...

Seneca: The greatest obstacle to living (and crypto)

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/10/21/14/45/aurora-borealis-2874887960720.jpg Pixabay “The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy. In anticipation of tomo...

Epictetus - The chief business in life

"Thus in life also the chief business is this: distinguish and separate things, and say, 'Externals are not in my power: will is in my power. Where shall I seek...

Stoicism and the pursuit of a good life - A brief overview

Hey guys, If for some reason you happened to read my steemit account page maybe it occurred to you that I have cited a quote of Marcus Aurelius on there: It is ...

Why Tinder doesn't work(*) - Part 2: The Marriage Supermarket and opportunity costs

() mathematically speaking https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/02/22/10/20/human-1215160960720.jpg Pixabay This is a continuation of Why Tinder doesn't work() - ...

Why Tinder doesn't work(*) - Part 1: Nash Equilibrium and Prisoner's Dilemma

() mathematically speaking https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/07/29/09/11/young-1551664960720.jpg Source Have you ever personally used Tinder or any similarly i...

What mathematicians do during coffee break

Christmas season is upon us and this is how we welcome it with a few different geometrical representations of the christmas star. The left one has cubic/octahed...

IOTA clarifies its affiliation with Microsoft - finally

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/01/18/08/25/social-1989152960720.jpg Hey guys, maybe you have already picked it up in the news already but IOTA clarifies, th...

The Hunt for Red October - A somewhat scientific review of stealth drives

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2013/07/30/15/07/submarine-168884960720.jpg During the outgoing era of cold war, Soviet captain Marko Ramius goes rogue as his sta...

[Warning] Do Not Invest in BitConnect, it is a Ponzi Scam! Read these 10 Reasons Why

I came across this post How is Bitconnect Sustainable? How is Bitconnect Not a Ponzi? written by @craig-grant which seems like a nice guy but is clearly wrong o...

World record surfaces - 100+ follower special

Hey guys, not until recently did it occur to me that I have accrued over 100 followers. This is amazing - and some of you are not even bots. &128523; Speaking o...