6+ day, 11+ 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…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (889+ words) Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers organiser.org Book Review | Finding Zero: A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers One of the most interesting features of Finding Zero is the way…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (383+ words) A group of researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology has placed an innovative device in the heart of the Taboga Forest Reserve in Costa Rica. This device, which includes a touchscreen and a food dispenser controlled…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) Wild white-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica are learning to use a touchscreen in the middle of the forest, giving researchers a new way to study animal intelligence without taking the monkeys out of their natural environment. The system, called…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (80+ words) | The study was published in Scientific Reports | Inshorts Inshorts Giraffes can do simple maths: Study A study by the University of Barcelona has found that some giraffes can determine which of two options contains more food after mentally combining two…...

3+ week, 1+ 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!...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (404+ words) New Delhi: Some giraffes can mentally combine hidden quantities of food, performing a basic cognitive process similar to simple addition. At the Barcelona Zoo, certain giraffes successfully tracked and chose containers holding larger combined amounts of carrots, according to a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (137+ words) Upgrade and listen to live audio transcription More is usually better when dinner is at stake. Many animals are able to choose the larger serving when two different-sized portions of food are placed right in front of them. A harder…...

3+ week, 2+ 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....