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Scientists Say: Symmetry
1+ week, 5+ 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…...
Pastor’s Corner: Monkey physics!
3+ week, 2+ 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!...
??????? Vision may have shaped the primate brain - News
2+ week, 4+ day ago (452+ words) advanced cognitive functions. A study published in Science more closely links the expansion of the neocortex...
Giraffes show basic maths skills, can mentally add hidden food quantities
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…...
The Monkey Series: Learning to See Beyond the Subject
2+ week, 6+ day ago (21+ words) Explore the Monkey Series through wildlife photography, observation, composition, and the art of seeing beyond the subject to find meaningful photographs....
Here’s How Albert Einstein Proved Pythagoras Theorem When He Was 11
3+ week, 6+ day ago (31+ words) When looking through the book Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Manfred R. Schroeder, I came …...
Study Show Giraffes Can Do Basic Maths Tasks
3+ week, 5+ 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…...
When Meaning Becomes Geometry
12+ hour, 43+ min 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 …...
What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go
4+ week, 2+ day 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…...
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
6+ day, 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…...