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Dee Crescitelli

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · Jun 23

Some of the math of war; the distance of the impacts… open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

War and Prophetic Ecstasy

Bombing Iran and Evangelical Dreams

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Dr. Zil Roars (Paul H. White, Ph.D.) @drzilwhite.bsky.social · 18h

If a grad or undergrad researcher in my lab said to me, "We are doing the studies to make the proof", I would have them retake research methods course and/or a philosophy of science course.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 1d

Q3a: What mathematics do you see in this object? - symmetry

Q3b: What makes this art? - symmetry

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to slow chat re: any of it that speaks to you! #ElemMathChat #MathAndArt

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

#ElemMathChat 🙂

kearnsn.bsky.social @kearnsn.bsky.social · 1d

Colors of the stars get to so many things. Temperature, life cycle, nuclear reactions. Color is amazing!

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s keep making and noticing patterns in mathematics and art!
Thank you for joining me this evening! #ElemMathChat #ArtAndMath
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Thank you in black text in a white circle surrounded by multicolored flowers.

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s end with some mathematical philosophy.
G.H. Hardy said, “A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made of ideas.” (A Mathematician's Apology, 1940, pg 13)
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

So much to think about in the gradients of both of those! 🙂

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q7: What patterns do you notice in this piece?
What other mathematics can we pull out? #ElemMathChat #MathAndArt

Mixed-media art piece- paint, textile, and paper on canvas- in green and shades of brown and burgundy

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!! So much math and science in what you are describing! #ElemMathChat

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q6: What art do you see here? What mathematics do you see in this art? #ElemMathChat #MathAndArt

Celica Crifasi- porcelain tile cookies- Geometric patterns in blue and white icing

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q5: What do you notice about this image? What do you wonder?

Q5b: How do the patterns in the tiling contribute to your appreciation of the art?
#ElemMathChat #ArtAndMath

Iranian glazed ceramic tile work, from the ceiling of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz, Iran. CC Photo credit: Pentocelo

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q2 Follow-up: Artistic expression can take many forms. In what ways are you an artist? #ElemMathChat #Art

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q4 Follow-up: This dress from the Red Dress Project was designed to allow women from around the world to tell their stories through the art of embroidery. Visit the site- reddressembroidery.com for more information. #ElemMathChat #MathAndArt #ArtForJustice

The Red Dress

A 14 year long, award winning global collaborative embroidery project 2009-2023.

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed this one… #ElemMathChat

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q2: What do you notice about this image? What do you wonder? #ElemMathChat #NoticeWonder

Green balls of plant matter hanging on strings from a ceiling skylight to a bed of green plants

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q4: What mathematics do you see in this beautiful textile art? #ElemMathChat

Refugees from Ukraine, embroidering on a red dress during the “Traces of Sisterhood’ exhibition at Galeriia Salon Akademii in Warsaw, Poland, 2022

Close-up of a section of the dress titled Birds of Peace

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

#ElemMathChat
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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q3a: What mathematics do you see in this object?

Q3b: What makes this art?

A wooden round lazy-Susan with inlays of cubic shapes

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q3a: What mathematics do you see in this object?

Q3b: What makes this art?

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q2 Follow-up: Artistic expression can take many forms. In what ways are you an artist? #ElemMathChat #Art

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

#ElemMathChat ❤️

Pete V @pvermy.bsky.social · 1d

Ships in the foreground. Stars overhead. Navigation. The relationship between time, speed, and distance. Plotting a fix by starlight. Spherical Trigonometry.

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Great insights! #ElemMathChat

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q2: What do you notice about this image? What do you wonder? #ElemMathChat #NoticeWonder

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q0: What is your favorite form of artistic expression? Have you considered the mathematics of that art before? #ElemMathChat

image of lots of different kinds of artful expression

Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q1: What mathematics do you see in this image? #ElemMathChat

Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône

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Dee Crescitelli @dcrescitelli.bsky.social · 1d

Q0: What is your favorite form of artistic expression? Have you considered the mathematics of that art before? #ElemMathChat