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A squirrel sketch with cute eye lies sprawled out belly down in the shadow of a tree.

Splooters gonna sploot…

a kitty at a chalkboard in a helmet with elemetns of math all around.

Chalkboard Dreams

Kitty dreams of such wonders… @mathart4all requested a t-shirt design that was so much fun to do! The prompt included soma, rubiks, space, Euler’s Formula, The Bridges of Königsberg, and a kitty (of course). If you want to buy this on Bonfire the link is here. However, I am all for supporting local

a bird with 144 beaks in a thought cloud of a kitty with the words "kitty contemplates a new species."

Gross-Beak

I got side tracked when thinking about the next math bird in a series and thought “I’m long overdue for a kitty comic.” Dozen=12 and Gross=144

i-bis

i-bis (white faced ibis) on the complex plane.

Probability in the Leaves

Probability in the Leaves

I run and see the crows daily. They splash, play, talk, and announce the sunset. I see them in yards flipping leaves together and can’t help but feel that they are calculating probabilities. Of what, I am not sure – maybe the probability of finding a nut, bug, or piece of pizza. No matter what, […]

Hyperbolic Kittyoid

Hyperbolic Kittyoid

Gold-Phi-nch

This was inspired by my backyard Gold-phi-nches (goldfinches) that cluster on my sunflowers, brighten my days, and provide hours of entertainment. As someone who has been isolated pre-covid, I am so grateful for the joy that birds bring me. I imagine the flocks propagating sunflowers far and wide to

The Magpi

No 5-second rule…

No 5-second rule…

a kitty on a zip line showing the rise/run heat map that if the change in x is zero then the kitty falls

Divide by Zero = Free Fall

a cat shaped klein bottle sketch

Klein Bottle Kitty

Drawn in Concepts

$Kitty is sleeping and dreaming of a toothpick fractal made of kitties sleeping in the same position$

Kitty’s Toothpick Dream

And for some fun play with toothpicks go here: http://oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html [http://oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html]

a platform game where the platforms are the cantor set with a cat and a yarn ball falling

Cantor Set Kitty Kong

No one wanted to play with kitty…

yarn rolling on, then off an impossible triangle

Isometric Yarn GIF

I am working on my GIF skills… Maybe a 52-weeks of hands-on math idea for next week.

a kitty with a cape and a kitty with a mask figuring out which is better to run with

Unbiased Trade Study (DAR)

No weights were used, the only stakeholder in the process was Kitty, and scores need not be normalized. CMMI Level 5 not achieved… INCOSE engineers may have given an eyeroll…

a kitty scratching on an impossible shape

Kitty designs isometric scratch tower to annoy perfectionists.

a magpie (corvid) with tag 19 and a map with red dots

Kitty is dumbfounded as to why a bird map causes panic…

With mom in chemo and sitting in the hospital 2-4 times a week lately, we have found the lack of access to masks and all the craziness a bit much. Humor is how we cope.

a box that says dead or alive? with a cat pawing at it and a thought bubble showing the box and whisker with not whiskers

Fractal Kitty Investigates: Box and Whiskers

radioactive halflive plots of how its effects might apply to a cats nine lives through the door titled nuclear medicine

Half-life effects on nine lives?

a comic showing the math of how bushtits explode with they hit critical mass on the feeder

Kitty Counts Birds – Critical Mass

a kitty with a white board showing kittens attacking laserlights

Laser Lights – Plan of Attack! 500,000 Kittens

A kitty rubbing on a Friday 13 with the word Friggatriskaidekaphile below

Friggatriskaidekaphile

frig·ga·tris·kai·dek·a·phile/fɹɪɡə,triskīˌdekəˈ,fīl/ nouna person who has an extreme love for the friday the thirteenth.

a cat running with a watch while thinking about instantaneous speed and delta t

Kitty’s deep thoughts while running…

kitty with yarn and knot diagrams

Good Gordian! – Knotty Kitty

A cat at a whiteboard with a curve and the integrals of the curve showing the tension and impulse of a plot

Kitty Teaches Literature

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