X Bubbler: May 2015

Friday, May 15, 2015

I'll be back

I have many more math blog posts planned, but I feel a little tired, so let's take a few more months off, please?
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Physics :: Stack Exchange

Can a purely theoretical physics paper still be published without simulations or experimental data? - I have a question about publishing in theoretical physics. In fields such as quantum mechanics, general relativity, gravity, cosmology, astrophysics, and...
16 minutes ago
Mathematics on reddit

Using the symmetries of numbers to discover the cubic formula - [image: Using the symmetries of numbers to discover the cubic formula] submitted by /u/Necessary-Wolf-193 [link] [comments]
4 hours ago
Citizen Science

*Citizen Science* Reveals A Hidden Map Of Sharks And Rays In Mozambique - Forbes - *Citizen science* is revolutionizing marine biodiversity monitoring, especially in under-documented regions like Mozambique. Facing vast, unevenly ...
4 hours ago
About Intelligence

AI's new North Star: *Intelligence* per dollar - Business Insider - The goal was not to make Alexa use the smartest model every time. It was to use expensive *intelligence* only when the job required it. Related video.
4 hours ago
EarthPorn on reddit

Skridulaupen, Norway [OC][2000x1500] - [image: Skridulaupen, Norway [OC][2000x1500]] submitted by /u/SjalabaisWoWS [link] [comments]
5 hours ago
ScienceDaily

A daily fiber supplement reduced knee arthritis pain and improved strength - A prebiotic fiber supplement reduced knee osteoarthritis pain while also improving grip strength and pain sensitivity in a six-week trial. The results hint...
8 hours ago
Education on reddit

Threw out my lesson plan mid-class because it wasn't working, and it turned into the best discussion of the year - Structured unit was falling flat, kids checked out. A student asked a slightly off-topic but genuinely curious question, and instead of redirecting back ...
8 hours ago
Science, Nigeria

My students overcame anxiety to win three STEM gold medals – Educationist, Onyia - ... *Nigerian* students to the Grand Finale of the International STEM ( *Science*, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Olympiad in Rome, Italy, where ...
9 hours ago
Research News of Africa

PhotonPay Releases Emerging Markets Payment Report: Unlocking *Africa's* B2B Potential ... - By PR Newswire. New *research* highlights how stablecoins and unified multi-rail settlement infrastructure bridge the gap between *Africa's* rapid ...
9 hours ago
DW Environment

Eco wins: Cities, creatures, and tech are saving the day - From an AI-powered cute little pangolin, heat mapping to cool down cities and animals reducing wildfire risks by doing their thing, these real-world climat...
10 hours ago
Science | The Guardian

‘Ozempic face’ and hair loss: what evidence is there for weight-loss drug side-effects? - Research into GLP-1 medications is not always robust but complaints such as digestive problems are well known Weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjar...
11 hours ago
all the classrooms

Educators partner with *Classroom* Central to provide essential school supplies | WSOC-TV - READ MORE: https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/educators-partner-with- *classroom* -central-provide-essential-school-supplies/JWL32LFKOBF5TDLR7E6ZJGJWUM ...
18 hours ago
Popular Science

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow raise $10 million - The fundraiser hit its goal after a $5.5M donation from an OpenAI co-founder. The post Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow raise $10 million appeared first on ...
19 hours ago
Universities // Nigeria

Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson to Receive Honorary Doctorate and Present Posthumous ... - Faith leader and Virginia Union *University* Chairman will address the *University* of *Nigeria's* Class of 2026, connecting US HBCUs and African ...
21 hours ago
Gaming x Education

The Best Laptop for Multitasking Between Class, Coursework, and Casual *Gaming* - Reviewed - The HP OmniBook X Flip, a Copilot+ PC, is the best laptop for multitasking. See how it handles RAM, storage, and casual *gaming*.
21 hours ago
Community :: Mathematical Societies

Glasgow and Dublin to host world's largest maths conference - Deadline News - ... *Mathematicians* in Philadelphia, USA, where the Fields Medal winners were also announced. The Edinburgh, London and Irish *Mathematical Societies* ...
21 hours ago
uni

Israel, TETFund move to end *Nigeria's* 'research graveyard,' launch fresh drive to turn ... - ... *campus* ideas into billion- naira businesses. By Apex *News* Exclusive Last updated Jul 24, 2026. 0. Share. In a bold move aimed at tackling one of ...
22 hours ago
Education in Africa

IG Kanja ordered to ensure smooth transfer of Gatoto Primary to new owners - Nation Africa - A signpost at Gatoto Community Primary *School* in Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Nairobi in this photo taken on January 6, 2025. Photo credit: File | Nation.
22 hours ago
About Mathematicians

First Chinese Nationals Win Fields Medal - ... *Mathematicians* (ICM) in Philadelphia, USA, on the 23rd, local time. /International Mathematical Union. Two *mathematicians* from Peking University ...
23 hours ago
Varsity Online

Burnham becomes first Cambridge-educated prime minister in 89 years - The Fitzwilliam graduate is also the first UK prime minister to have studied English at university
1 day ago
The PIE News

Should the UK capital’s higher ed institutions be ‘Londonmaxxing’? - The Mayor of London has teamed up with London's institutions to make the case that the city is the higher education capital of the world. But what more c...
1 day ago
Inderscience news

The concrete and the clay… - Research in the *International Journal of Environmental Engineering* has demonstrated that bottom ash from incinerated municipal solid waste could be use...
1 day ago
About Scientists

*Scientists* decry Trump's 'blame game' after he claims Canada 'poisoning' US air - *Scientists* have reacted with incredulity after Donald Trump accused Canada of “poisoning” the US's air with smoke billowing from a slew of forest ...
1 day ago
My Engineers

REA Unveils Plan for Renewable Firms to Challenge Discos Within 15 Years - By MyEngineers The Rural Electrification Agency has announced a long term strategy to build renewable energy companies capable of competing directly with N...
1 day ago
Tech & Learning

Helping Students Explore Space And The World Beyond Their Classrooms - Innovative Leader Award - NASA Solar System Ambassador Tim Needles shares how exploring the world and space can provide learning experiences to infinity an...
1 day ago
PODCAST :: The Naked Scientists

Wildfires worldwide, and algae microbots for drug delivery - In this week's show, wildfires continue to race across the world in Canada, Ireland, Scotland and Italy. Why are they happening, and what can we do to prev...
1 day ago
calculus

My *Calculus* 3 Students Did THIS on Their Final - YouTube - It's so fun grading my *Calculus* 3 finals because so many students are drawing the exact vector *calculus* summary chart we made in class before they ...
1 day ago
About Physicists

Why *Physicists* Spent a Century Arguing Over Sprinklers - YouTube - Why *Physicists* Spent a Century Arguing Over Sprinklers A garden sprinkler spins when it sprays water out. But what happens when you run it ...
1 day ago
Owlcation

'A Hot Noon in Malabar' by Kamala Das: A Complete Analysis - How can the memory of one sweltering afternoon stay with a person for a lifetime? In Kamala Das's poem "A Hot Noon in Malabar," a single blistering noon in...
1 day ago
Citizen Science

Looking back, thinking ahead | AJEM July 2026 - They then used that information to advocate to local government. It was a combination of *citizen science* and volunteerism – people coming up with ...
1 day ago
Science Teachers on reddit

Scientist of the Month - Hi all, First year teaching high school biology and I was thinking about a practical use for 1 of my 2 bulletin boards in my classroom. I was thinking a...
1 day ago
Learning Mathematics

Don't Overthink It .... #*maths* #education #yt #shorts #*learn* #solution # *learning* - YouTube - *learn* #solution #*learning* #school #*mathematics* #iqtest #ratio #algorithm.
1 day ago
Education // Nigeria

Gov Mbah Seeks Fundamental Shift In *Nigeria's* Approach To *Education* - YouTube - ... *Nigeria* #Lagos #Nigerianews #Nigeriannews #channelstelevision #Channelstv ... Gov Mbah Seeks Fundamental Shift In *Nigeria's* Approach To *Education*.
1 day ago
news :: maths today

Popularity of '*Maths* Apps' is surging in Scottish classrooms - The Herald - USA *Today* · Notices · Events · Archive · News Scottish News Health Education HQ ... Some students opt to study both: in 2024, there were 60,860 students ...
1 day ago
Published on arXiv

Glob3R pairs a frozen 3D foundation model with global SfM - AI Weekly - The interesting move in a new *arxiv* paper called Glob3R is not the model itself but the shape of the system around it. Rather than trust a 3D ...
1 day ago
ESE

FAMU School of the *Environment* Invited to Premier National Research Laboratory - ... *environmental science*.. (You already say future ... *Engineering* Laboratory and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL).
1 day ago
Science, Africa

When Will Malaria Meds Stop Working In *Africa*? - Forbes - In most *African* countries, *scientists* are monitoring drug-resistant genotypes. One critical threshold they're monitoring is 10%; once a treatment ...
1 day ago
Maths, Nigeria

AI is *mathematics*, says robotics pioneer, Bart Nnaji - Realnews Magazine - ZENITH Bank Plc has been named “Africa's Best Bank” and “*Nigeria's* Best Bank”, the latter for the second consecutive year,... Read More · MILO *Nigeria* ...
1 day ago
Science: Current Issue

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public - Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
1 day ago
Visual Capitalist

Which World Regions Have the Most High-Income Countries? - Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest share of low-income countries, while North America is entirely high-income.
2 days ago
Quanta Magazine

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? - One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what ...
2 days ago
The Accidental Mathematician

Congratulations to Hong Wang! - Congratulations to Hong Wang on winning the Fields Medal!! Hong Wang received her PhD degree from MIT in 2019, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute f...
2 days ago
Entomology Today

Why One Entomologist is Dedicated to Building Healthy Forests - [image: A person with shoulder-length curly hair, wearing round glasses, a brown sweater, and a thin chain necklace, smiles at the camera in front of a pla...
2 days ago
Physics World

Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transform particle physics - This podcast also explores the intersection of general relativity and quantum information The post Quarks and qubits: how quantum computing could transfo...
2 days ago
Health :: Dutch News

Unproven policy means less care for young women in crisis - A growing group of young women with severe mental illness are getting stuck in the Dutch mental health system, and...
2 days ago
Indian Institutes of Technology

*IIT* Madras to Host 3rd Digital *India* RISC-V Symposium on August 1–2 - The *Indian* Institute of Technology Madras (*IIT* Madras) will host the third Digital *India* RISC-V (DIR-V) Symposium on 1–2 August 2026 at the *IIT* ...
2 days ago
geometry

Getting Ready for *Geometry* - Part 7 - YouTube - This content isn't available. Getting Ready for *Geometry* - Part 7: Substitution #algebra #*geometry* #substitution #iteachalgebra. @iteachalgebra12 ...
2 days ago
Science :: The Hindu

Will Trump’s bunker buster bombs punch through Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain? - The U.S. faces a complex challenge at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, where powerful bunker buster bombs face hardy geological formations. Success is also limited...
2 days ago
Science – News Ghana

IBM Confirms Miss After Record Stock Plunge - NewsGhana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, News Ghana, https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ibm-confirms-miss-after-record-stock-plunge/IBM confirmed we...
2 days ago
Puzzling :: Stack Exchange

Lucky Goes Electric - This is the second puzzle in *The Capers of Lucky the Lockpick*. The previous one is here. In the early hours of a special day earlier this month (July),...
2 days ago
the classroom

School calendar: When does Term 3 end? - The South *African* - Win. *classroom*-school-education-learning 0. Learners across South *Africa* are back at their desks after the June-July school holidays came to an end ...
2 days ago
mathematics

IWLCA Names 2026 Division III Academic Honor Roll - *Mathematics*. Morgan Lebek, SR, Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought/Psychology. Margeaux Matz, JR, *Mathematics*/Political Science. Annie McCarthy, SR ...
2 days ago
IEEE Spectrum

The Computer That Helped Win World War II - One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later rep...
3 days ago
History of Science and Mathematics :: Stack Exchange

Relation between Eudoxus' proportions and Dedekind cuts - I've recently been interested in Euclid's *Elements* and part of that is Eudoxus' theory of proportions. Just as a quick reminder, for four magnitudes $A...
3 days ago
African x Math(s)

Primedia Cares partners with Shaya Izibalo Maths Institute to tackle South *Africa's maths* crisis - EWN - The initiative comes as more than 400 schools reportedly do not offer *mathematics*, due to teacher shortages, limited resources and budget ...
3 days ago
FutureLearn

Recognising the clinical indicators of mental torture - [image: Doctor talking with patient in office]Learn to identify the complex psychological, somatic, and cognitive signs of torture in patients through a tr...
3 days ago
Science News :: Economic Times :: India Times

India must cut launch costs, boost local manufacturing to become world's third-largest space economy: DoT official - India is on a mission to become the world's third-largest space economy by the year 2033. This ambitious vision hinges on vital changes in policy and regul...
3 days ago
Oxford Internet Institute

The New Era of Lawyerless Contracting - Contract generators, platforms, and AI are reshaping consumer contracts. Luka Nenadic explains how and highlights the potential pitfalls and policy implic...
3 days ago
learning maths

In India's Northeast, a Hilly State Connects Students to Better Jobs Through Improved Education - After training, I found *math* teaching and *learning* can be fun. I introduced the students to pair work and group work, and could encourage girls to ...
3 days ago
Puzzles

Local event to feature world's largest *puzzle* - Fort Worth Business Press - Sometimes life can seem like one big *puzzle*. In the case of Stephen Crea, it is actually the biggest *puzzle* – the largest in the world, in fact.
3 days ago
The Aperiodical

Double Maths First Thing: Issue 62 - Double Maths First Thing doesn’t fear the REAPER Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to spread mathematical joy and surprise. Thi...
3 days ago
algebra

How an AI Tool Just Dismantled an 87-Year-Old Mathematics Problem in 216 Characters - In a watershed moment for the intersection of artificial intelligence and advanced *algebra*, an 87-year-old mathematical mystery known as the Jacobian ...
3 days ago
Science News :: LeMonde

New monkey species identified in Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo - First photographed in 2008, this small colobus monkey with pink-orange lips has now been officially described by an international team of researchers – and...
3 days ago
Showerthoughts

Maybe modern orcas don't attack humans in the wild because their great great grandparents associated us with easy food back when whaling was in much more common practice. - submitted by /u/Mr_Faux_Regard [link] [comments]
3 days ago
Nature Biotechnology

A spatial view of tumor neoantigen recognition -
3 days ago
EdSurge Articles

What Does AI Cost When We Skip the Work? - This Week with EdSurge podcast examines what holds up when artificial intelligence moves fast.
3 days ago
Stephen Wolfram Blog

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected - “My Program Did the Wrong Thing!” Bugs are a ubiquitous phenomenon in the software world. And—essentially by definition—each one of them is somehow unique ...
3 days ago
Terence Tao

A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample - The notorious Jacobian conjecture can be formulated concretely over the complex numbers as follows. Conjecture 1 (Jacobian Conjecture) Let be a polynomial ...
3 days ago
Education – Punch Newspapers

Police arrest 1,198 suspects, rescue 166 kidnap victims — IG - Nigeria Police Force arrests 1,198 suspects for various crimes and rescues 166 kidnap victims in nationwide anti-crime operations. Read more here. Read Mor...
3 days ago
TechTalks

Moving beyond passive RAG: How to implement active memory reconstruction for AI agents - Passive RAG floods LLM context windows with noise. MRAgent’s active memory reconstruction improves reasoning and cuts token costs. The post Moving beyond...
4 days ago
Education :: South China Morning Post

Rethinking Leadership for a Changing World - [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] When Professor Fiona Devine returned to Hong Kong this year, it was her first v...
4 days ago
TED-Ed videos

The mystery of the giant kelp forest - Luka Seamus Wright and Salomé Buglass -
4 days ago
Education – The Conversation

Why children learn English more easily with the help of their home language – Namibian study - Home languages can help children learn English and become stronger readers.
4 days ago
Education :: Dutch News

Class ranking skews school advice for Dutch 12-year-olds: Study - The school track advice Dutch children receive at the end of primary school is influenced by how they rank compared...
4 days ago
of robots

'1,000% Going Bankrupt': Elon Musk Warns US Will Fail Without *Robots* | IBTimes UK - A billionaire's techno‑utopia collides head‑on with the brute *maths* of a $39 trillion IOU. By Kenneth Axl Published 21 July 2026, 2:52 PM BST.
4 days ago
ICTworks

Meta Wants to Charge for WhatsApp Messages: Chatbot Builders Beware - Starting October 1 2026, anyone using WhatsApp as a platform to reach their target audience will be charged by Meta for outbound messages. Until that dat...
4 days ago
Ethereum for Beginners

Onchain - Hi I have ethereum on onchain that I want to withdraw to get to revolut or my bank any help would be appreciated please and thanks 😊 submitted by /u/Cust...
4 days ago
MIT News

Emery Brown, Daniel Hastings, and Douglas Lauffenburger named Institute Professors - Longtime professors and experts in the fields of anesthesiology, aerospace engineering, and biological engineering, respectively, receive MIT’s highest fac...
5 days ago
Introvert, Dear

Why Social Plans Feel Worse as They Get Closer - Pre-party anxiety is the feeling of dread that can make a social event seem awful before it has even started. The post Why Social Plans Feel Worse as The...
5 days ago
MindShift

Education Researchers Warn Political Review of Federal Grants Could Reshape What Gets Studied - Critics say the White House proposal could curtail studies of achievement gaps and long-term research.
5 days ago
Science + Technology – The Conversation

Where do the world’s biggest diamonds come from? Geology now has answers - Studying the mineral olivine in kimberlite sheds some light on diamond origins.
6 days ago
The Trendy Science Teacher

Growing Borax Crystals: A Hands-On Solubility Lab Your Students Will Love (FREE) - If you’re looking for a memorable way to teach solutions, solubility, saturated solutions, supersaturated solutions, and crystal formation, this Growing ...
6 days ago
RoboticsBiz

Four years of fake GitHub repositories: Why the scam keeps getting cheaper to repeat - SUMMARY: Since at least 2022, threat actors have built an escalating business out of manufacturing fake trust on GitHub — and the latest wave shows them ...
1 week ago
Math visualized

Finding Minima: The Two Tests Every Optimizer Needs - [image: Finding Minima: The Two Tests Every Optimizer Needs] Hello, If you've ever worked with gradient descent, you know the basic goal: step downhill...
1 week ago
Space.com

Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that transported 'The Odyssey' to outer space - So much more than the earwormiest theme song in the galaxy.
1 week ago
TechCabal

The young Kenyan engineer who thinks robots belong in every classroom - During her mentoring of young people in STEM, she met deaf students struggling through STEM classes because qualified sign language interpreters were scarc...
1 week ago
World Economic Forum | Agenda | Education and Skills

Why the AI era presents not a jobs crisis, but a livelihood one - Traditional job descriptions are collapsing under AI. Here's why global policy must shift from protecting jobs to securing human livelihoods.
1 week ago
life liberty happiness

What should we do now? - Nothing. - What should we do now? Nothing?? It's never (almost everywhere) if it's forever too. backlinks: 2025, 2019(Still) learning something about 9-year c...
1 week ago
math: optimization and control on arXiv.org

Using a MIP Solver as a PDHG-Based MIP Heuristic - arXiv:2607.14483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The PDHG algorithm provides a new capability for solving difficult linear programming (LP) problems: the ab...
1 week ago
Science | The Atlantic

Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn - Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
1 week ago
Environment + Energy – The Conversation

China is funding African farmers but not food processing and storage: why it’s a problem - Chinese lenders have invested billions in African agriculture. But new research shows the money often misses what’s needed to modernise the sector.
1 week ago
Education – IT News Afr

Tomorrow Foundation Expands 100 Million Learners Initiative to Equip Nigeria’s Youth for Future Economy - Tomorrow Foundation, the non-profit organisation empowering the next generation of leaders and innovators across Africa and the Middle East, has signed a n...
1 week ago
Science | dw.com

T. rex 'Gus' sells for record-breaking $50.1 million - The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton surpassed its pre-sale estimate and set a new auction record for a dinosaur fossil.
1 week ago
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: Most-Read Full-Text Articles

In This Issue - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 28, July 2026.
1 week ago
Team4Tech

How Team4Tech Micro-Projects Strengthened Six Education Nonprofits Through Skills-Based Volunteering - What do a financial model, a cybersecurity training program, an AI-powered dashboard, and a digital storytelling workflow have in common? They’re all del...
1 week ago
Hubble Telescope Picture of the Week

Science Release: Hubble discovers first of star cluster’s missing black holes - [image: Omega Centauri context image]The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black h...
1 week ago
Mathematics Educators :: Stack Exchange

Use AI to write maths/physics problems? - I'm a high school teacher (students are btw 15 and 20). I'm using LaTeX to write all my lecture notes, problem sheets, activities, ... I am thinking abou...
1 week ago
Journal of STEM Outreach

Blog Post: Articles for Volume 9, Issue 1 Now Posted - Submissions are welcome for the current volume; please continue to refer to author instructions prior to sending manuscripts to the journal.
1 week ago
Udacity

What is the Claude Agent SDK, and why are engineers building their own harnesses? - Last Updated on July 13, 2026 Every time you use Claude, through the browser, through Claude Code, through any Claude-powered product, you are using a harn...
2 weeks ago
Healthcare – IT News Africa

From Hearing Aids to Smart Wearables: The Digital Evolution of Hearing Devices - From bulky early devices that simply made all sound louder, many hearing aids today have evolved into sleek, virtually invisible wearables powered by perso...
2 weeks ago
Education – Vanguard News

Picking holes in Alausa’s proposal to scrap JSS,SSS education system - Government remains hyper-focused on the “quantity” of out-of-school children while ignoring the “quality” of the education being offered The post Picking...
2 weeks ago
Health + Medicine – The Conversation

Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil - Different social realities lead to different forms of vaccine hesitancy.
4 weeks ago
mms.mathnet.ru

Russian mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky resists extradition after Armenia arrest - He earned a mathematics degree from the Independent University of *Moscow* and received his Ph.D. ... The French *Mathematical Society* also issued a forma...
5 weeks ago
Chalkdust

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2026 - Your chance to get your work published as a Chalkdust article---read on to find out more! The post Chalkdust dissertation prize 2026 appeared first on Ch...
5 weeks ago
Al-Fanar Media

Mr Punter Casino: Szybkie Wygrane na Spin i Ekspresowa Gra - 1. Puls Szybkiej Sesji Gdy ekran się rozświetla, pierwszą rzeczą, którą zauważasz, jest rytm bębnów, odgłos tasowania kart i natychmiastowa reakcja, która ...
5 weeks ago
Math Mama Writes...

Book Progress - I'm working on removing anything unnecessary from *Althea and the Mysteries of Calculus*. So far I've only removed 15 pages. At that rate, it would t...
1 month ago
Gowers's Weblog

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro - We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revis...
2 months ago
plus.maths.org

How understanding risk empowers communities - Weighing up risks is something we have to do every day and sometimes the stakes are high. Find out what to keep in mind when doing so!
2 months ago
Education | The Atlantic

A Mediocre Public-School Education for Just $40,000 a Pupil - How New York City’s education budget became an untouchable money pit
2 months ago
Coursera Blog

Coursera Expands Job-Ready Learning with New University and Industry Programs - Today I am excited to announce the launch of several new Specializations and courses from our university and industry partners that help learners integra...
3 months ago
The polymath blog - Collaborative advanced maths

Polymath News and AI - A post over “Combinatorics and More” describes Nissan Hajaj’s proposal to combine AI with polymath projects. Together with Nissan Hajaj and Ido Kaminer we ...
3 months ago
Ancientfoods

Happy April Fools Day 2026 - Hope you enjoy this as much as I do..
3 months ago
Drug Target Review

From fragments to maps: scaling drug–target interaction data - Most drug–target data were never designed to be compared at scale. Pharmome mapping takes a different approach, building a shared dataset intended to suppo...
3 months ago
AMS New Books

Linear Algebra, Matrices, and Their Applications - [image: CONM 833] Shaun Michael Fallat, Surender K. Jain, Manjunatha Prasad Karantha, Stephen James Kirkland and T. S. S. R. K. Rao, editors. American Ma...
5 months ago
The Gradient

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment - Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we dir...
5 months ago
Space in Africa

Eutelsat Group Records EUR 33.2 Million in Revenue from Africa in H1 2025-26 - When Eutelsat Group reported EUR 33.2 million (USD 38.4 million) in African revenue for H1 FY2025-26 (a 40.8% decline from […] The post Eutelsat Group Re...
5 months ago
Space in Africa

Eutelsat Group Records EUR 33.2 Million in Revenue from Africa in H1 2025-26 - When Eutelsat Group reported EUR 33.2 million (USD 38.4 million) in African revenue for H1 FY2025-26 (a 40.8% decline from […] The post Eutelsat Group Re...
5 months ago
symmetry magazine

Muons: Emblems of discovery - Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.
6 months ago
Health – Observer

The Longevity Gap: How Aging Research Leaves Women Behind - Priyanka Jain, co-founder and CEO of Evvy, and Kayla Barnes-Lentz, a leading expert in female longevity, examine how today’s longevity movement remains fun...
6 months ago
Analytics India Magazine

From OpenAI to Groq, 6 VC Trends That Captured AI Funding Gold Rush of 2025 - Global investment in AI reached $202.3 billion by Q3 2025, a 75% year-on-year increase. The post From OpenAI to Groq, 6 VC Trends That Captured AI Fundin...
6 months ago
AMS News

Taylor to Receive 2026 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition - [image: Michael E. Taylor in a green shirt] Michael E. Taylor Michael E. Taylor, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics emeritus, University of Nor...
7 months ago
TechCrunch

How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO) - Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the ...
7 months ago
Blog | Intellectual Mathematics

Netz’s false claims about Kuhn - Reviel Netz, in his new book Why the Ancient Greeks Matter, Cambridge University Press, 2025, goes out of his way to frame half the book as a refutation of...
8 months ago
India.com :: Science

Who was first human to fly in space? how was Vostok 1’s journey beyond Earth? - Gagarin's success made him an international hero and a symbol of the Soviet Union's achievements in space exploration.
10 months ago
Calculus blog :: teachers and students

Past AP Exams - Recently, the College Board removed all the past AP Calculus exams dating back to 1998. This included free-0response questions and full exam with multiple-...
10 months ago
Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

Embroidering an aperiodic tiling - I started a new math art project today and just couldn’t stop. Basically I’m dreading going back to school soon, but didn’t want to mope all day and waste ...
11 months ago
The Chronic Engineer

Bow of my pains - Those arrows that impale you Spring from the bow of my pains If only I could pause my business And sit like a tramp in the rain To loosen that very taut stri...
11 months ago
Reflections of a High School Math Teacher

Tier Your Discipline Note #3 to My Son who is a New Teacher - Dear Son, As you start out as a new teacher, discipline is important. Be consistent and be slow at any escalations. Be up front with how you plan to di...
11 months ago
Divisible by 3 [Andrew Stadel]

NEW SITE: AndrewStadel.com - Hi everyone, I'm kicking off the next chapter of being a math educator at andrewstadel.com I'm currently teaching secondary math at a project based lear...
1 year ago
Watch The Yard

Sigma Gamma Rho’s Tonya Williams Inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame - Tonya Williams, actress, producer, activist, and proud member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., has officially been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame,...
1 year ago
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

AIMS Celebrates Renewed Funding for the University of Tübingen’s Cluster of Excellence in Machine Learning - The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is delighted to share the exciting news that the Cluster of Excellence “Machine Learning: New Perspe...
1 year ago
Up Naira ... $weet '16

One dream ends - I asked AI to make a flag. (Second attempt) *Twenty years ago*, I was living in California, missing Nigeria, and so I created this blog, UpNaira, my s...
1 year ago
Facebook Research

Blog Post Test - An update from Meta Comms regarding UX research
1 year ago
SciStarter

SciStarter Celebrates 75 Years of the National Science Foundation with Nationwide Citizen Science and STEM Events - Interactive NSF STEM Day Events to Spotlight SciStarter and Science Near Me For Immediate Release– The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) marks its 7...
1 year ago
IBM THINK Blog

Preparing for the defence of the Realm - In light of current conflicts, the UK is now faced with real-world military decisions that will affect our immediate future. Ed Gillett and Col Chamber...
1 year ago
AMS Feature Column

What's the 411? -
1 year ago
Mathematical Moments :: AMS

Tapering AI Limits with Mathematcial Formalization - Dr. Alex Best, of Harmonic discusses AI's struggles with technical and ethical limitations like uninterpretable methods and a lack of diverse datasets make...
1 year ago
Piekniewski's blog

Singularity missed - Every now and then in the discussions of AI/AGI and what not comes the central figure of that entire intellectual movement - Ray Kurzweil. And with him i...
1 year ago
Howard University News

Ready for a Homecoming Anniversary 100 Years in the Making - Ready for a Homecoming Anniversary 100 Years in the Making Cedric.Mobley Tue, 10/08/2024 - 11:51 5 minutes
1 year ago
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Top Learn to Draw YouTube Channels - If you are looking for handy resources to help your kids and students learn to draw, the collection below has you covered. In it, I featured a carefully co...
1 year ago
Fractus Learning

The Future of Injection Molding: How Nicolet Plastics and Mantle 3D Is Accelerating Tooling Innovation - The injection molding industry is on the cusp of significant transformation, driven by the collaborative efforts of companies like Nicolet Plastics and Man...
1 year ago
Mathematics Learning

20 ideas of using Number cards - 20 ideas of using Number cards #rashkathmath #mathematics #math Number cards from 1 to 20 can be used for a variety of educational and recreational p...
1 year ago
SIAM Research Notes

Using k-mer Analysis to Understand Bacterial Genome Data - By Lina Sorg The DNA of all living species is comprised of genetic information known as genomes, which are written as sequences of nucleotide bases. Biolog...
2 years ago
SIAM Careers

Self-assessment and Personalized Projects in Math Classes Align Grading with Educational Values - By Jillian Kunze Math teachers generally hope that their students will develop skills in logic, reading, technology, research, and creativity, and grow an ...
2 years ago
SIAM News

SIAM Unwrapped - July 2024 - ...
2 years ago
Science - The Huffington Post

So, You Looked At The Eclipse Without Glasses. Are Your Eyes Doomed? - Don't ignore these subtle symptoms that could be signs of serious eye damage.
2 years ago
Education - The Huffington Post

'It's Been Devastating': A Q&A With The Top Librarian Fighting The GOP's Book Bans - "The weaponization of libraries ... is a bludgeon that’s scaring people everywhere," said American Library Association President Emily Drabinski.
2 years ago
Science is Beauty

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2 years ago
Google Research Blog

Generative AI to quantify uncertainty in weather forecasting - Posted by Lizao (Larry) Li, Software Engineer, and Rob Carver, Research Scientist, Google Research Accurate weather forecasts can have a direct impact on ...
2 years ago
Teen - The Huffington Post

New Study Reveals The 1 Simple, Free Activity That Can Improve Mental Health In Minutes - And the best part is, it's available wherever you live.
2 years ago
TienPhong :: Education :: News

Vietnamese student designs English-Vietnamese communication gloves for the hearing-impaired - With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an 11th grade student from Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam has designed gloves that can help tra...
2 years ago
LinkedIn Engineering

Improving Recruiting Efficiency with a Hybrid Bulk Data Processing Framework - Co- Authors: Aditya Hedge and Saumi Bandyopadhyay 2022 was a year driven by change for the Talent Acquisition industry, with nearly 50k company mergers and...
2 years ago
Nick Higham

What Is the Spectral Radius of a Matrix? - The spectral radius of a square matrix is the largest absolute value of any eigenvalue of : For Hermitian matrices (or more generally normal matrices, thos...
2 years ago
notes on Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin

My techno-optimism -
2 years ago
Caltech Letters

We Do Our Homework: Caltech Graduate Students and Postdocs Should Form a Union - Courtesy of C/GPU *Viewpoint articles are a vehicle for members of the Caltech community to express their opinions on issues surrounding the interface of...
2 years ago
Free Technology for Teachers

Seven Mind Mapping Tools to Try This Year - Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is often to...
2 years ago
opencalculus

opencalculus has moved to activecalculus.org - You can now find all previous posts — and, more importantly, all future posts — for this blog at https://activecalculus.org/blog/.
2 years ago
Running a Math Club: My Experiences

Two Hinged Triangle Geometry Walk Through - Setup Its time for another geometry walkthrough motivated this week by this interesting problem from James Tanton. "Two isosceles right triangles are hi...
3 years ago
I Speak Math

Mathstodon Prompt 4 – Let’s Share and DO MATH Today! - Today, my math peeps, we’re going to be sharing and maybe doing math! Is there a problem that you love having your kids work on? A favorite problem that ev...
3 years ago
On Teaching and Learning Mathematics

Three Mathematical Cultures: What Can We Learn? - Three Mathematical Cultures: What Can We Learn? Mark Saul July 2023 Everyone needs mathematics. It is the heavy industry of scientific development, the un...
3 years ago
Co-Creation Hub Nigeria

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3 years ago
C. K. Raju's Blog

Ambedkar vs Periyar and conflating caste with race - My recent tweets (1) In the context of the foolish statement by the President of the Indian History Congress that Veda-s were created by Aryans who came fr...
3 years ago
X Bubbler

It's time... - but don't go away. Keep up with my other blogs. Read my books. Stay mathy. ✌
3 years ago
Learning with 'e's

War Child - It has been quite a while since I last posted anything on this blog. I guess it's the same for many folk right now, what with all that's been going on i...
4 years ago
The Earth Story

wicks-photo:Manly Beacon Trail Death Valley National Park - wicks-photo: Manly Beacon Trail Death Valley National Park
4 years ago
The Center of Math Blog

International Women's Day 2022 - Happy International Women's Day 2022. Let's take a look at some of the most influential mathematicians in history. *Hypatia* Despite there not...
4 years ago
The Anticareerist

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4 years ago
Axios

The U.K. just created a huge marine sanctuary in the remote South Atlantic - The waters around the remote inhabited island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic are set to become the world's fourth-largest marine sanctuary. *...
4 years ago
Ri :: Royal Institution

Ri Wrapped: 10 most-watched science talks of 2021 - Check out the most popular talks on neuroscience, physics, biology, and more.
4 years ago
inclusion/exclusion

Failing on its own terms - Mathematics is unreasonably effective. In several ways. And that’s dangerous. I am always surprised by the elegance of the Power Rule from Calculus. Humans...
4 years ago
Beyond Reviews: Inside MathSciNet

Where to send a paper - Suppose you have just written your first paper in an area and now you want to figure out where to send it. Maybe it’s your first paper ever. (If so, cong...
4 years ago
AMS Grad Blog

You should have a website (and it doesn’t have to be hard) - Some months ago, a conversation among graduate students at Emory turned to the topic of updating websites. A few of us had yet to make one, so I joked that...
4 years ago
nature.com blogs

Interactions: Ghina M. Halabi - Ghina M. Halabi is an astrophysicist and social entrepreneur, whose work lies at the intersection of science, entrepreneurship and education. During her Ph...
4 years ago
Capital Currents

Hiatus - Dear readers, I took this position as the Director of Government Relations in January of 2017 and my first blog posted shortly thereafter. I love researchi...
4 years ago
e-Mentoring Network

How to apply to and thrive in quantitative biology REUs - By Annamarie Leske and John T. Nardini Every summer, many undergraduate students spend 8 weeks conducting projects as part of a Research Experience for Und...
4 years ago
Indigenus

Nature India moves to nature.com - Nature India is now on nature.com. It is a return to where it all began for this regional portal of Nature Portfolio serving the scientific community of th...
4 years ago
Caltech student blog

We've Moved! - Hello everyone! Typepad has treated us well, but we've moved to https://caltechadmissions.blog. You'll find many of our old and new stories there. See you ...
4 years ago
dy/dan

Area Man Who Talks a Lot About Teaching Teaches His First Full Day in >10 Years - I have taught demo and observational classes regularly since I left full-time teaching but yesterday was the first time I taught every class for the day. L...
4 years ago
Education – The Nation Nigeria

Communities urged to seek peaceful resolution to farmers, herders clashes - Communities in the country have been advised to explore peaceful methods adopted by Otukpo in Benue State to curb farmers/herders clashes. According to a N...
4 years ago
Science Editors' Choice

Separating the stages of germination -
4 years ago
Traveling Thru History

10 Most Instagrammable Sites in Cambodia - Cambodia is full of amazing and beautiful sites. If you're looking for places to wow your followers, check out the most Instagrammable sites in Cambodia....
5 years ago
PhD + epsilon

TMI - Note: This is only one instance of students sharing I intend to discuss. In particular, coming up in future months are “mandatory reporting” instances, whi...
5 years ago
Blog on math blogs

iRashida: A Tour - iRashida, is a blog written by Rashida Hakim, a junior computer science student at Caltech, where she shares “problems and ponderings in physics and math, ...
5 years ago
Aerospace Engineering Blog

Podcast Ep. #49 – 9T Labs is Producing High-Performance Composite Materials Through 3D Printing - Martin Eichenhofer is the CEO & co-founder of 9T Labs, a company that was spun out of ETH Zürich in Switzerland. The company specialises in providing softw...
5 years ago
PhD Talk

Editorial: Diagnostic and Proof Load Tests on Bridges - I recenlty published an editorial for the jounal Frontiers in the Built Environment: Bridge Engineering on the topic "Diagnostic and Proof Load Tests on ...
5 years ago
edX Blog

Top Computer Science Careers and Skills & 10 Programs to Match - Demand for computer science roles has been rising for years. Under the lens of the pandemic, opportunities sharpen focus specifically in areas that help ...
5 years ago
Udemy Blog

CS YOU – Enabling Equal Opportunities in Customer Success - Three years ago, Sasha Green wasn’t expecting to get an email that changed her life, but she sure did need it. “I had hit a low point and desperately neede...
5 years ago
Math = Love

Monday Must Reads: Volume 66 - It's Monday! For my school, that means it's a distance learning drill day. We are face-to-face Tuesday through Friday. Each Monday, we have a distance lear...
5 years ago
Science and Research :: South China Morning Post

HKEX to surpass Nasdaq as king of biotech IPOs in 5 to 10 years, CEO says - Hong Kong will surpass the Nasdaq as the world’s largest biotechnology stock trading and fundraising centre within the next five to 10 years as Chinese sci...
5 years ago
ACM SIGGRAPH News

South African Author and Illustrator Trevor Romain to Keynote ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity and Inclusion Summit at SIGGRAPH 2020 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 August 2020 CHICAGO — As the SIGGRAPH 2020 North America conference goes to a virtual format starting on 17 August, 2020, the 3r...
5 years ago
Krissy Venosdale

Mini You Animation with Keynote - Put a little personal touch on your tutorial videos or just surprise students with a massive bobble-head version of yourself on their screens. Resources: A...
5 years ago
AMS News +

Just Equations Blog: A Tour -
6 years ago
GuardianTeach

Plans to reopen English primary schools before summer in disarray theguardian.com/education/2020… - Plans to reopen English primary schools before summer in disarray theguardian.com/education/2020…
6 years ago
Mother Nature Network

Forest products help power local economies - Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs help weather tough times.
6 years ago
Math and Multimedia

Feeling stressed? Meditation apps see surge in group relaxation. - Feeling stressed? Meditation apps see surge in group relaxation. 22 April, 2020 | By Rachel Lerman Deep breath in. Many of us are stressed and trapped at...
6 years ago
Cosmos Magazine

Early disc galaxy puts theories in a spin - It’s huge and distant, so how did it form?
6 years ago
SpringerOpen blog

ICMNS 2020 – Digital (6th-7th of July 2020) - This year International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience will be digital! It will take place 6th-7th of July 2020 For detailed information and reg...
6 years ago
interdisciplinary on reddit

Obtaining Equations of Motion: Newton vs Lagrange vs Hamilton - [image: Obtaining Equations of Motion: Newton vs Lagrange vs Hamilton] submitted by /u/Gereshes [link] [comments]
6 years ago
Google Student Blog

My Path to Google - Juan Angustia, Visual Designer - Welcome to the 43rd installment of our blog series “My Path to Google.” These are real stories from Googlers, interns, and alumni highlighting how they go...
6 years ago
Authentic Inquiry Maths

Start the Year with an Attitude Survey - Here in my part of Australia it is the end of Week 1, Term 1. Being a good teacher, I am always keen to get to know my new class quickly and to find out a...
6 years ago
BorschtWithAnna

Proof in a non-Geometry classroom - A beef that I have long had with the standard math curriculum is that for many students who don't take college math courses, proof is a weird one-off that ...
6 years ago
Khan Academy

20 educational gifts for all ages: Khan Academy team’s favorite toys, books, and games for learning - It’s the season of giving! We asked the Khan Academy content team to share the gifts they love to give the children in their lives. Find a special and ed...
6 years ago
ScienceBusiness.net

Harnessing digital technologies to improve healthcare in Norway - Harnessing digital technologies to improve healthcare in Norway Since November 2016, Science|Business and its institutional members have been organising c...
6 years ago
Homeschool Math Blog

Where do I start with Math Mammoth? - Where do I start with Math Mammoth? is a question I often hear (or read 😃 ). Most of the time, the best starting place is this page: https://www.mathmamm...
6 years ago
travelthroughhistory

ADVENTURES IN LONDON - [image: Add to Technorati Favorites]Usually I like to spend two or three days in London. I love going on the London Walks which are so interesting. I've be...
7 years ago
Games and Learning

New GamesandLearning.co Marks Evolution of GBL Work - The National Science Foundation has awarded GamesandLearning, Inc. one of its America’s Seed Fund grants to develop and test a new platform for identifying...
7 years ago
Book Ends

Why textbooks? - Do we really need textbooks? In this age of swelling enrolments in undergraduate math classes, students with diverse interests and backgrounds, new modes ...
7 years ago
scienceofus

What Is Autophagy? - Right when I’d gotten used to intermittent fasting…
7 years ago
CitizenSci

Book Review: Building a Foundation In Environmental Citizen Science - Dickinson, Janis L. & Bonney, Rick. (eds). Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research. Cornell University Press, 2012. 279 pages. Pape...
7 years ago
ThinkThankThunk

Dear Iowa BIG Students: 2019 - This is an open letter to current, former, and future Iowa BIG students. Sometimes you just need to make your position known. For someone who works at a sc...
7 years ago
Change Over Time

Home Depot STEM Activities - In December, we bought our first house! It's a cozy ranch style home with a nice-sized backyard. We STILL haven't unpacked all of the boxes. We have a cou...
7 years ago
AIMS Center for Math and Science Education

A Radical Theory Part 1: The Main Ideas - This is Part 1 of a series of articles about Radical Constructivism. The introduction can be found HERE The Big Question Sometimes we ask silly questions. ...
7 years ago
f(t)

Last Post for 250 Miles - Hi everybody, I have reached the end of my rope with Blogger, and have moved all the contents of this blog to a shiny new location. Any new posts after tod...
7 years ago
Math Teacher Mambo

Calculus Extras... - One of the fun things about learning calculus in high school is that as a student you get to refresh your memory and pull from your memory and create sweat...
7 years ago
Harvard College Student Blogs

La Vie en Rose: My Decision to Study Abroad - I wasn’t sure about a lot of things when I first came to Harvard. Continue reading about La Vie en Rose: My Decision to Study Abroad HFGP, study abroad, ...
7 years ago
Renaissance Headquarters

Fighting Perfectionism - I have noticed that I have a problem with perfectionism that prevents me from getting things done. In this post, I am going to talk about how I am going ...
7 years ago
Education-Related efforts at Google

Our 10th Doodle 4 Google winner is dino-mite - Ten years ago, for the very first Doodle 4 Google contest, we asked students “what if?” A decade later, we’ve been privileged to receive hundreds of thou...
8 years ago
Next Einstein Forum

Feeding the world, preserving the world - The Plenary session on Feeding the world, preserving the world focused on various aspect and contributing factors of food security in Africa. The session...
8 years ago
Edutopia

Setting Up Effective Group Work - Truly collaborative group work is complex and messy, so we have a few tips and tools to get students working interdependently.
8 years ago
Middle School Math Rules!

Create a Classroom Setup Kit - One of the best ideas I had a few years ago was to create a kit of all the necessary supplies I would need to get my classroom set up in August. There i...
9 years ago
Math Game Time

16 All-Star Math Games for Kids - Are you looking for math games designed to spark kids’ interests? If they’re sports fans, then you’ve come to the right place! We’ve rounded up the most ex...
9 years ago
Visual Insight

Romik’s Ambidextrous Sofa - The *ambidextrous moving sofa problem* is to find the planar shape of maximal area that can negotiate right-angled turns both to the right and to the left ...
9 years ago
Mr Reddy Maths Blog

A hasty post on problem solving in maths: more English is the answer - Email just in from a teacher: “How you are tackling problem solving? Our learners and staff are finding it a challenge and I feel the key is to ensure it i...
9 years ago
Cambridge University Press

The Gypsy’s Guide: William Wallace - *Angela Nickerson of travel blog *The Gypsy's Guide, *and author of *A Journey into Michelangelo's Rome* posted a fine interview with Michelangelo author...
16 years ago

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