What Reddit is saying about textbooks

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The highest scoring of the newest 50 posts that match, each with the start of the post and its top reply. The full list, every comment and anything older need a key.

1. I get excited for studying like I'm going on vacation

   Before I sleep, I convince myself that studying tomorrow is going to be SO exciting, like I'm counting down to a trip l've been planning for months...maybe I'm about to fly to Japan or something....

   Top reply (1 points): i'm stealing this. my textbooks deserve a little pre-trip excitement.

   r/WeirdStudyTips56 points2 comments3 h ago
2. A Completely Serious and Totally Accurate Proof That 5 + 5 = 11

   Most people have been taught that 5 + 5 = 10. This is the sort of thing that textbooks, mathematicians, scientists, engineers, accountants, cash registers, calculators, computers, and basic...

   Top reply (7 points): Step 13: Divide by zero, show that a = 2a, add 5+5 to both sides, and you proved it! Step 14: Suppose we're using base 9 numbers. Then 5 + 5 = 11 in novel...

   r/mathmemes26 points13 comments8 h ago
3. The duality of life, seen on an ordinary Diwali holiday night.

   &x200B; As usual, I was getting ready for my evening walk, waiting for an acquaintance to join me. Work has been quite hectic over the past few months, the weather has been having its own mood...

   r/Coconaad22 points2 comments9 h ago
4. Mount Pearl is named after a drug smuggler

   Just curious how many Newfoundlanders (and people who live in Mount Pearl) were told about James Pearl at school, and if so does this particular nugget of history turn up? Is he in any school...

   Top reply (9 points): guess you took a little poetic license there to play up the "Drug smuggler" aspect! Not really drug smuggling as in this day and age. While Pearl was a...

   r/newfoundland14 points7 comments4 h ago
5. non technical book reccommendations

   Looking for book recs that aren't textbooks to read for fun, books similar to: flash boys, dark pools, laws of trading thanks

   Top reply (4 points): Grapes of wrath

   r/quant10 points10 comments10 h ago
6. Has anyone studied anatomy from Dr. Ashish Agrawal? How was it?

   Ik that ashwani sir is the best for anatomy but I have not been able to find his 1st year’s pirated lectures and the egurukul lectures that are available are pg oriented and im not able to keep up...

   Top reply (4 points): My friend got his subscription and i studied neuro anatomy form him and it was really good and effective..... I'll highly suggest his lectures...but...

   r/MBBSindia7 points15 comments4 h ago
7. GM2 matchmaking is genuinely a psychiatric experiment

   GM2. A pretty high rank, you'd think. Yet my duo (Star-Lord) and I ended up in a match that genuinely felt like being locked inside a mental asylum. At the very beginning of the match, some of my...

   Top reply (1 points): Not all spider players but it's always a spider player throwing rank games.

   r/rivals5 points11 comments1 h ago
8. (Re)starting my gamedev journey

   TL;DR: I'm starting gamedev again after a very long time not doing it. ♥🎮 I'm going to try being more "extroverted" as a gamedev. Games are art, and art has no rules. C++ is the way for me, for...

   r/GameDevelopment5 points3 comments9 h ago
9. 06/11/26 - The duality of life, seen on an ordinary Diwali holiday night.

   &x200B; As usual, I was getting ready for my evening walk, waiting for an acquaintance to join me. Work has been quite hectic over the past few months, the weather has been having its own mood...

   Top reply (2 points): You're a torch bearer and the light you shine shall help those who seeks path, and thanks for not mentioning about the help.. keep spreading the happiness 😊

   r/u_Woman_of_Kulture4 points2 comments4 h ago
10. In 1932, the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a study on 399 African American men with syphilis. They were not informed of the nature of the study and proper treatment was withheld, killing over 100 people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee\Syphilis\Study In 1928, the "Oslo Study of Untreated Syphilis" had reported on the pathologic manifestations of untreated syphilis in several hundred white...

    Top reply (1 points): What's worse is they made black female nurses give the shot and then lie to the men while they knew what was actually happening.

    r/AllThatsHistory4 points2 comments4 h ago