Following the first hyperlink in the main text of an English Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually leads to the Philosophy article. In February 2016, this was true for 97% of all articles on Wikipedia, an increase from 94.52% in 2011. The remaining articles lead to an article without any outgoing wikilinks, to pages that do not exist, or get stuck in loops.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_philosophy_phenomenon

This Article studies the intersection of race and gender, examining it through the lens of Western imperialism. Even though both critical race and feminist scholarship have addressed this intersection,few if any offer a precise theory for understanding the imperialized experience. This Article seeks to fill that void. The social inequality minority women face, in particular those of Asian descent, can be best articulated by a theory this Article calls white sexual imperialism.

This is an extremely harrowing piece, but it does show there is a way.

the Black diaspora immediately resonated with Madeline’s perspective and defended her against this early flood of hate comments, and this prompted a reckoning for the creators that jumped her, as well as deeper online conversation among Asian creators about how anti-Blackness fuels self-hate within assimilationist Asians.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

let’s talk about the assimil-asians

I am sensing a powerful synergy.

I’m a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University. I’m interested in algebraic topology, semigroup theory, and computer science.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGtAuJdjYI

An animated explainer on homotopy groups. Discusses geometric intuition for π₁/π₂/π₃ using loopspaces of metric spaces. Includes an original, nonstandard visualization of the Hopf map.

Beautiful typesetting and animation. Homotopy is really weird; surprised that people turned this stuff into type theory.

Ranked #1 among over 400 entries in the 2025 Summer of Math Exposition (SoME4) competition

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Very slick technique.

A series of videos covering the history of de Broglie’s famous matter wave theory. Bro is a genius, FRFR. Bro was doing unification before it even had a name. We ought to re-trear his work.

Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them

Fucking kill me.

In this video, I present one of the most influential formulations of classical physics — Hamiltonian mechanics. This is a walk through the birth of Hamiltonian mechanics and how Hamilton extended Lagrange’s work into a new, elegant formulation that would go on to influence quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and dynamical systems.

In this video, I present an overview of symmetries in physics, passive vs. active transformations, and how to derive Noether’s theorem from the Euler-Lagrange equations. Different examples are presented in detail to show how the invariance under specific symmetries can be used to construct conserved quantities.

A brief history and derivation of Lagrangian mechanics from Newtonian mechanics.

About half of Asian adults who have heard of affirmative action say it is a good thing. But about three-quarters of all Asian adults say race or ethnicity should not factor into college admissions decisions.

Does no one actually understand what the hell affirmative action is, or are Pew awful at asking about opinions on this topic?

No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narratives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy.

Very provocative essay which I’m struggling to fully believe.

A crash course in quantum physics.   I explain states and transition probabilities between states in quantum physics, and the basic rule for computing transition probabilities.

Surprisingly straightforward.

Can’t fully understand because there are no words, but the author looks to be making a very neat connection between coalgebras and the executions (here “traces”) of transition systems. Became aware of her work through Adjoint School 2026.

via: https://www.cs.uni-salzburg.at/~anas/talks.html

Ben Sparks uses simulations for a new insight into Möbius loops.

Very nice video demonstating the power of using the computer when doing mathematics.

see: https://www.geogebra.org/m/v5z33vth

In which some very meta background music comes out of the background, and goes nuts.

You know how saying a word over and over again makes it lose all meaning? Somehow, this guy invoked the same feeling using music. This idea does make for surprisingly interesting film score, tho. Would be perfect for a psychological thriller.

In this one I go through how Brennan Lee Mulligan hid a secret finale to Game Changer Season 7 behind months of lies, all so Sam Reich finally gets a taste of his own medicine of subjecting improv comedians to twisted little challenges. We’ll discuss every clue piece that was placed throughout Game Changer Season 7, with lots of hidden content most people haven’t seen before involving Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, and many many more.

via: https://coolthingswefound.com/archive

We further develop the group-theoretic approach to fast matrix multiplication introduced by Cohn and Umans, and for the first time use it to derive algorithms asymptotically faster than the standard algorithm. We describe several families of wreath product groups that achieve matrix multiplication exponent less than 3, the asymptotically fastest of which achieves exponent 2.41. We present two conjectures regarding specific improvements, one combinatorial and the other algebraic. Either one would imply that the exponent of matrix multiplication is 2.

Part of Prof. Cohn’s larger matmul program. Don’t completely have the chops for it yet, but definitely something to hold onto.