Delicious Mathematical Thanksgiving Recipes

Hello, everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted anything much in a while, I’ve just been busy moving into my beautiful new house! Since I have even better kitchen appliances now, I figured I should use them for something. With Thanksgiving just in a couple of months, and with my love of mathematics, I found these awesome videos that’ll show you some Thanksgiving recipes that are delicious AND educational! There are four videos in all which I will post here. Have fun trying out these recipes, and I’ll see you again soon! (note: these videos were made by Vi Hart, the same person who did the Doodling in Math Class videos.)

Recipe: Mashed potatoes

Mathematical Concept: Polygon-to-circle homeomorphism

Recipe: Green bean casserole

Mathematical Concept: Vector fields

Recipe: Onion rings

Mathematical Concept: Brunnian links

Recipe: Turducken

Mathematical Concept: Binary trees & exponential functions

Cool indie horror game

If you’re into the horror genre, try this game – SCP Containment Breach. The SCP foundation is a website where people contain all the supernatural and anomalous objects & creatures. You can post your own story, and if they like it, they might just add it into the game! Check out this gameplay video, and see if you have what it takes to join the Foundation.

Two cool Daft Punk covers

I don’t really listen to Daft Punk, but these two covers of some of their songs are absolutely brilliant. These covers are by Pentatonix and Steam Powered Giraffe, respectively. What are some of your favorite song covers? Let me know in the comments!

Hogwarts Is Here

Have you ever wanted to be a student at Hogwarts’ School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Now’s your chance – with Hogwarts Is Here, you can take live lessons and have actual homework assignments, all without leaving the comfort of your own domicile! To become a student and start taking lessons, you can start right here.

Exponential functions & paper folding

How can folding a piece of paper get you to The Moon? Find out how and learn all about exponential functions (one of my favorite mathematical ideas to play with) in this crazy video. Do you know any ways to use mathematics in real-world applications? Let me know in the comments!

12 Disney attractions that never happened

The Disney parks have some pretty fun rides and attractions – but some of them never made the cut. These 12 rides and attractions were planned to be at various Disney parks, but were never built for various reasons. You can check them out here. So what do you think – would you visit any of these attractions if they existed? Let me know in the comments!

Amazing 3d chalk snake art

You know snake – where you maneuver a trail across the screen to collect dots and the “snake” gets a little bigger each time? This guy takes it to the next level with this crazy 3d snake animation made from chalk!

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