Vihart - delightful whimsy

My nephew showed me some of Vihart's videos recently. Oh, my...

People like her buoy up my respect and love for humanity. We are capable of such endearing wonder.

http://vihart.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart

Some of my favorites:

Wind and Mr.Ug

Pi is (still) wrong

Pachelbel's Music Box Canon in D

Mobius Music Box

Doodling in Math Class: Infinity

(All of her gorgeous 'doodling in math class' pieces)

http://vihart.com/music/somethingelse.mp3

http://vihart.com/music/something.mp3

She calls herself a mathemusician. May she live long and enjoy life to its utmost, bringing light and fun to the rest of us along the way.

homophobia rising to fever pitch in Brazil

Brazil is becoming one of the most dangerous places on Earth to be LGBT. About 250 murders of LGBT last year there. The homophobia is being promoted by religious conservatives there and is ripping through their society with violent results. Once such hate gets out of control it becomes like a fire and won't just stop at LGBT people; next they will target a different minority, then next another, then another, then another...

President Dilma Rousseff has said that human rights are at the “center of her politics”. She needs to live up to that and work to prevent hate consuming her country.

Sign this All Out petition that will be presented to her:
http://www.allout.org/petition/priscila