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When Meaning Becomes Geometry
9+ hour, 47+ 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 …...
Pythagoras Won’t Balance Your Books
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Pythagoras won???t balance your books
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (568+ words) Every year, thousands of Arts students struggle with mathematics. Some fail it repeatedly. Some lose university opportunities because of it. Others leave school convinced that they are simply “bad at maths.” Perhaps the problem is not always the student. Perhaps,…...
There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why
4+ day, 12+ 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?
5+ day, 13+ 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
6+ day, 10+ 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…...
Mathematicians discover the worst way to hang a painting
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (351+ words) New solutions found to picture-hanging problems By Emma R. Hasson edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Retired computer scientist Tom Verhoeff first explored such problems in a workshop for a grade school math camp, where the campers investigated with actual string and…...
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, 2+ 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…...
Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition
1+ week, 3+ day ago (103+ words) Scottish Book Trust Announcing the winners: Maths Tales competition During Maths Week Scotland in September, the Maths Tales writing competition was launched. Maths Week Scotland and Read Write Count with the First Minister teamed up to challenge young authors in…...
Ancient Geometry Hits the Screen: Ohio’s Hopewell Earthworks Featured in Public Television Series 'How It’s Math"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (194+ words) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Long before modern surveying equipment, computers, or blueprints existed, ancient Native Americans utilized sophisticated geometry to construct monumental earthen architecture across southern Ohio. Now, that ancient mathematical mastery is taking center stage for a national audience of young…...