The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday January 5th, 2023
Go Figure #thoughts by Jan Sand
Like the average guy I shop for various items in a store and try to keep the prices in my head so that when I approach the cash register I have a vague idea about how badly I am about to be hit. But living in the real world is like being under bombardment with sounds and colors and the occasional very pretty girl strolling through the shop and all those numbers spin clockwise north of the equator and counter-clockwise in South Africa and disappear down the drain. Which leaves me with the unnerving suspicion that some of my money is slipping sidewise into an undeserved pocket.
As someone delighted with the possibilities of understanding the world as precisely as possible and frustrated by the lack of a gut feel of how to deal with algebraic intricacy when confronted with the compact information in the typical mathematical equation I have tried to work my intestinal instincts into better relationships with the numbing associations of numbers.
After all, mathematics is not a science. It is a language and with that language one can describe, not only this world as we perceive it but also many alternate worlds, one of which we may eventually discover is a bit more like the way it really is.
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Time #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Is the hourglass
of bacterial death.
The flow of sand
between the past and
the future. Time is what
the clocks measure.”
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2nd opinion, quarantined! #23/1 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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