Lotto breaker.
Wired unearths the story of a gold-prospecting math whiz… sorry, geological statistician… who cracked the scratch-off ticket code: The trick itself is ridiculously simple. ([Mohan] […]
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SONG: A Tiny Golden Mean
SONG: “A Tiny Golden Mean” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Golden Ratio Discovered in Quantum World: Hidden Symmetry Observed for […]
Why She’s Beautiful
LabSpaces measures out the mathematics of beautiful girls: Pamela Pallett and Stephen Link of UC San Diego and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto […]
Germ markets.
Wall Street financiers have more in common with bacteria than you might expect (ahem), PhysOrg reports, based on a new study that shows how microbes […]
Dead Fish Tell Tales, Alright.
If you’ve ever wondered what a dead fish is thinking, LiveScience has the data, thanks to a team that gave brain scans to a dead […]
Science Art: Fractals.
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
The Beatles Knew All The Chords… Plus One.
Musical mystery solved after 40 years! It took an obsessive mathematician to discover what the heck the Beatles were playing for the opening chord of […]
Just don’t put their faces on bubblegum cards.
Science News reveals the latest success story in political prediction – from a guy using tools from baseball picking: He creates his baseball predictions by […]