Drawing Math

Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants

Rebecca Watson March 9, 2011
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Hilarious, smart, and awesome: we need to find this girl and make her one of us, immediately.

By Rebecca Watson
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears on the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. You can follow her every fascinating move on Twitter: @rebeccawatson.

22 Comments

  1. Zapski  /  March 9, 2011, 10:00 am

    Yes, she must be recruited. Hew awesomeness abounds. :)

  2. Brian G  /  March 9, 2011, 10:17 am

    …whoa

    I think I just learned math by accident.

    (incredible)

  3. zagloba  /  March 9, 2011, 10:34 am

    This is unbelievably awesome.

  4. Zapski  /  March 9, 2011, 10:43 am

    @Zapski: HER! Her awesomeness abounds. I have no idea how that became “hew.”

  5. Siveambrai  /  March 9, 2011, 10:55 am

    So going on her usage of “puppy sized elephant” I am going to guess that she is a nerdfighter and follows the vlog brothers.

  6. Skulleigh  /  March 9, 2011, 11:10 am

    Woah. I love this! I know what I’m going to be doodling in my art journal today! :D

  7. noobule  /  March 9, 2011, 11:14 am

    She’s got a bunch of vids, they’re all excellent (well, going by my sample of three >_>)

  8. Ryan  /  March 9, 2011, 11:39 am

    This looks surprisingly like my high school notebook.

  9. bishopdm  /  March 9, 2011, 12:13 pm

    Whew…I’m exhausted just watching her! Amazing!

  10. Bjornar  /  March 9, 2011, 12:20 pm

    vihart less than three

  11. redqueen  /  March 9, 2011, 12:49 pm

    Her name is Vi Hart. She has a blog and a Facebook page of awesomeness as well. And she looks like a baby Anne Hathaway. http://vihart.com/

  12. raven  /  March 9, 2011, 1:19 pm

    Love, love, love! Learning by accident (thanks, Brian G!) is the bestest!

  13. Lars  /  March 9, 2011, 3:55 pm

    Math, infinity, and an acute sense of geekery – maximum awesomeness.

  14. James Fox  /  March 9, 2011, 4:12 pm

    Damn straight corners need circles! I now have infinitely unrequited brain love.

  15. davew  /  March 9, 2011, 4:21 pm

    Made my week!

  16. vbalbert  /  March 9, 2011, 4:50 pm

    @Skulleigh: Mathematical equations?

  17. Madfishmonger  /  March 9, 2011, 7:10 pm

    Brilliant!

  18. Skulleigh  /  March 9, 2011, 9:26 pm

    So to speak. Er, draw :D

    Every spare surface today got covered in apollonian gaskets!

  19. noobule  /  March 10, 2011, 1:27 am

    From her bio on her site:

    “I think the human brain is incredible and strange, so I have developed a great interest in dreaming and consciousness. As a result, I am a trained hypnotist and a lucid dreamer.”

    Uh oh.

  20. pyrion  /  March 10, 2011, 3:19 am

    What’s wrong about that? Lucid dreaming is seriously studied by a lot of scientists. It’s real. As is hypnosis.

  21. banyan  /  March 10, 2011, 8:33 am

    Vi Hart is great. My favorite video of hers is the mobius strip one.

    Lucid dreaming is awesome. However, I’ve never heard of anyone being “trained” as a hypnotist in any sort of scientific way.

    But then she is just a very creative person. She might take any woo aspects of that stuff with a grain of salt.

  22. Rats Acre  /  July 25, 2011, 8:02 am

    Holy, holy crap!! This is just wonderful! Whole new inspiration for my art journal! And maths by stealth! Does the awesome never end!

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