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Science Art: In s is das Centrum fur den Meridian ANQ, 1857

20 December 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen As described on Wikimedia Commons (who got this diagram from the British Library), the image was “taken from page 100 of ‘Grundzüge […]

Scientific illustration of geometrical figures.

Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.

12 July 2020 grant 0

Click to embiggen The title here is the best I could render from the middle German “Hier Inn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreinern in eingelegter […]

SONG: “Math” (a penitential cover)

20 April 2019 grant 0

SONG: “Math” [Download] (a penitential cover) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for being late for March’s song (which […]

There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.

4 December 2018 grant 0

In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of […]

We’re getting bigger: “It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today.”

13 November 2018 grant 0

Gemini Research News has some bad news for the Earth’s growing population. It turns out that our farms will face some trouble because we’re going […]

Statistics are complicated, right? Well, thinking that is why we tend to get misled.

15 October 2018 grant 0

Ars Technica keeps it simple, smart, with a new study that shows why statistics can be the third kind of lie* – sometimes the hard […]

Alan Turing’s idea makes water three times cleaner.

8 May 2018 grant 0

Nature reports on a water filter based on computer pioneer Alan Turing’s only biology paper that appears to clean salt out of water three times […]

Science Art: Representations of the Braid Groups by Nancy Scherich, overall winner, Dance Your Ph.D. 2017.

12 November 2017 grant 0

“A representation is faithful if it has only one braid in its kernel.” So, this is doctorate-level mathematics rendered as interpretative dance, and that is […]

Science Art: Belt Trick by Jason Hise

16 October 2016 grant 0

The belts always twist, but never get tangled. Geometry can be weird. If you find this hypnotic, check out what the same creator has done […]

Why are American kids getting so good at higher math?

2 March 2016 grant 0

The Atlantic investigates the social movement behind America’s recent surprise win at the international Math Olympiad: You wouldn’t see it in most classrooms, you wouldn’t […]

Science Art: Contour plot of Rastrigin’s function in two variables, by Tos

28 February 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen I don’t have the math language to explain what’s going on here very well. It’s a diagram of the Rastrigin function, which […]

Beyond “We can all agree on cheese”: Higher pizza-cutting mathematics.

18 January 2016 grant 0

New Scientist delves into the advanced mapping of pizza slicing for *everyone’s* preferences: Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet […]

The third kind of lie: science vs. p-hacking.

8 October 2015 grant 0

Fusion goes beyond the three kinds of lies (“Lies, damned lies, and statistics,” according to… someone) and into the awful implications of trusting the data […]

SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)

21 September 2015 grant 0

SONG: “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”. ARTIST: grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. (Originally by Harry Nilsson.) SOURCE: It doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential […]

Viral science – things that spread fast.

10 March 2015 grant 0

Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?: In a paper due to appear in Management Science, […]

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