If Pyramid Head is your new geometry teacher, you'd better choose "run" over the rise.

[thanks, atd!]

First it taught us about evolution, now it's teaching us math.

TED Ed always makes learning fun, and this is no exception. If videos like these could replace all the boring teachers and textbooks, the world's collective IQ would make a significant jump. Also, there's pudding.

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Let this TED Education animated lesson smoosh your brain into putty as it tries to explain the mathematical concept of infinity. It might take forever to figure this one out.

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Hollywood may occasionally be good with fiction, but as soon as science enters the equation, it's a different story. That's why cinema big-wigs call in an expert like Jim Kakalios, who can actually do equations.

Kakalios might be solving some neat-o superhuman math, but the real question is, where did he get that tie?

[boingboing]

In honor of Pi Day, mathemusician Vi Hart tackles the question of whether Shakespeare's plays are encoded in the digits of pi (and, more importantly, whether there's also a version where Hamlet is a dog).

Spoiler: it depends on whether pi is a normal number, which is really hard to prove. Especially in iambic pentameter.

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