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When Meaning Becomes Geometry
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (36+ words) There’s a sentence I keep returning to, one I first read in a paper and then couldn’t stop thinking about: a word is known by the company it keeps. It sounds like …...
There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (592+ words) Admittedly, their names offer no special aesthetic appeal. But their forms are unique. Platonic solids are polyhedrons with the highest possible symmetry. Each of their faces is bounded by the same number of edges, and the same number of faces…...
Is self-processing conserved across primate species' brains?
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (164+ words) Comparisons between macaque, chimpanzee, and human brains reveal which aspects of self-processing brain architecture are conserved and which aspects have reorganized during evolution. Credit: Jianxiong Ruan et al., 2026. New in JNeurosci, Ning Liu, from the Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy…...
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...
Eight of ten blue-throated macaws slid a feeder door upward after watching another macaw do it, and not one of the five tested without a demonstrator went that way on its own, though the researchers say the species is too rare for them to prove it was imitation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (439+ words) The result held on one device and did not reach significance on the other, and the paper's own summaries carry that result further than its statistics do. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit Five blue-throated macaws…...
Scientists Say: Symmetry
1+ week, 6+ day ago (596+ words) Repeating patterns in shapes build everything from snowflakes to the body plans of life By folding a piece of paper in half and cutting a shape — such as a heart — from both sides at once, you can make a shape…...
??????? Vision may have shaped the primate brain - News
2+ week, 5+ day ago (452+ words) Aug 26, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT The evolution of the primate brain does not appear to have relied first on the autonomous growth of the frontal lobe, often associated with advanced cognitive functions. A study published in Science more closely…...
Simons Center Exhibition Brings Altgeld Math Models into Focus
3+ week, 3+ day ago (309+ words) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mathematical models were created — primarily in Germany — to visualize complex geometric forms and abstract mathematical concepts. Crafted from plaster, wood, metal, string, and even cardboard, these objects were used for research and university instruction....
The Monkey Series: Learning to See Beyond the Subject
3+ week, 19+ hour ago (21+ words) Explore the Monkey Series through wildlife photography, observation, composition, and the art of seeing beyond the subject to find meaningful photographs....
Pastor’s Corner: Monkey physics!
3+ week, 3+ day ago (288+ words) Tama-Toledo News Chronicle Pastor’s Corner: Monkey physics! Pastor Mike Nodland of the Christian Fellowship Church in Vining, IA. I recall my college statistics professor telling the class that you can prove anything with statistics, meaning also that statistics can lie!...