Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific:
… Read the rest “Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.”Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to have been invented at the start of the
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton… Read the rest “Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.”
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making … Read the rest “SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)”
This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is that the pressure at the bottom of a column… Read the rest “Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl”
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks… Read the rest “Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….”
An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python.
From the Center for Image in Science and Art, University of Lisbon.
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision:
… Read the rest “Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision”Today. William Bruckman and pals
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest.
I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems very, very 1990s. But still –… Read the rest “Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker”
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery:
… Read the rest “If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.”[Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory W.] Sullivan’s report
PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror:
… Read the rest “What’s behind your car?”A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has
PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making a healthy profit – the safer … Read the rest “Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.””
New Scientist looks at where and how business happens – and reveals that out of 37 million global companies, it’s only a very few who call the shots:
… Read the rest “The 147 corporations that run everything.”the study, by a trio of complex
PBS Frontline looks at how one urban physician, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has figured out how to fix our health care system – by using digital maps:
… Read the rest “Hot spots help health care”I went to the hospital that I worked for
SONG: “One In Ten.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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Wired unearths the story of a gold-prospecting math whiz… sorry, geological statistician… who cracked the scratch-off ticket code:
… Read the rest “Lotto breaker.”The trick itself is ridiculously simple.
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