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…...

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 …...

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (479+ words) As the saying goes, "If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was." What most people don't tell you is that if you let that something go from exactly…...

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!...

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…...

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…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (351+ words) New York Graduate Center with expertise in math education and communication. Hasson was also a 2025 AAAS...