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Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images

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Most of us can’t tell our secant from our cotangent. But the forms are everywhere, and Nikki Graziano wants to help us see them. Graziano, a math and photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology, overlays graphs and their corresponding e [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Female teachers' anxiety affects girls' math scores

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math may undermine girls' confidence and unwittingly encourage them to believe that boys are better at the subject, research at the University of Chicago shows.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Woolworth's stores in UK form precise geometrical pattern

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Matt Parker, based in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, has analysed the locations of the 800 Woolworths stores to reveal precise geometric patterns. This was based on the work of Mr Tom Brooks (a retired marketi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Today is a palindrome!!!

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With this adoration in mind, consider today, Jan. 2, 2010. The day is a palindromic date, meaning the number can be read the same way in either direction: 01-02-2010. There will be 12 palindromic days this century [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

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To start, you must visualize four key points. Center the bagel at the origin, circling the Z axis. A is the highest point above the +X axis. B is where the +Y axis enters the bagel. C is the lowest point below the -X axis. D is where the -Y axis [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Pi Calculation Record Destroyed: 2.5 Trillion Decimals

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, have demolished the previous world record on the constant pi, more than doubling the amount of decimals to 2.5 trillion. They used a massive parallel computer called the T2K Tsukuba System. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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African tribe of 200 populated rest of the world

Research by geneticists and archaeologists has allowed them to trace the origins of modern homo sapiens back to a single group of people who managed to cross from the Horn of Africa and into Arabia. From there they went on to colonise the rest of the  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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123456789 Day: Big moment comes at 12:34:56 on 7/08/09

For the digitally inclined, Wednesday marks a cool spot in sequential history. At exactly 12:34:56, the time and date will be 12:34:56 7/08/09. That only happens once -- or twice -- every 100 years, so for some, it's worth celebrating. Plenty on Fa [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The different in math scores b/w genders is due to environment

Poor women. While normal intelligence can co-exist with ovaries, our delicate lady-brains can't contai genius-level intelligence. Men and women might have the same average intelligence, but men have more variation, and thus more idiots AND genuises. A [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Math Buffs Celebrate Rare 5/7/09, Also Known As Odd Day

Prepare to be awed by Odd Day. For the mathematically challenged, Thursday's date, 5/7/09, is one of only six this century that will feature three consecutive odd numbers. Numbers lovers say the rare occurrence is an excuse to celebrate. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Fractal Snowflake Cupcakes - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

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Some time ago we showed how you can make Sierpinski triangles out of polymer clay, and followed that up by making fractal cookies, in the pattern of the Sierpinski carpet. Another well-known simple fractal is the Koch Snowflake-- soon to be known a [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street

A year ago, it was hardly unthinkable that a math wizard like David X. Li might someday earn a Nobel Prize. After all, financial economists—even Wall Street quants—have received the Nobel in economics before, and Li's work on measuring risk has ha [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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