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Monday, September 30, 2019

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When Pixels Collide — A fascinating act in the history of humanity happened last weekend on reddit by @sudoscript https://t.co/0CUtKReqqV pic.twitter.com/SEy27s06js
— Maxime (@BeaugrandMaxime) April 13, 2017

The artistry of the crowds: what Redditers did together- When Pixels Collide - sudoscript https://t.co/4SQ1dPsLyV
— Emrys Schoemaker (@emrys_s) April 9, 2017

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Physics :: Stack Exchange

Conservation of linear velocity and rotation - I have a problem that goes like this: Homogeneous rigid vertical rod moving with speed $V_0$ hits the edge of a massive obstacle and begins rotating arou...
51 minutes ago
MIT News

Geologists discover rocks with the oldest evidence yet of Earth’s magnetic field - The 3.7 billion-year-old rocks may extend the magnetic field’s age by 200 million years.
1 hour ago
the classroom

*Education* department will hire temps to fill 31 000 *teacher* vacancies - The Mail & Guardian - The Centre for Development and Enterprise has estimated that South *Africa* will need 456000 *teachers* by 2025 for the country to offer quality ...
1 hour ago
TechCabal

Exclusive: Kenyan officials deny arrest of Binance exec who escaped custody in Nigeria - “They are piling pressure, but he has not been arrested as reported. The process is lengthy and cannot be done without involving other agencies. Interpol c...
1 hour ago
Science :: The Hindu

Future Skills at Monash College and Microsoft partner to transform tech education with AI - Students will be given a suite of certifications and badges from Microsoft through the program.
1 hour ago
learning maths

Talking *Math*: WPI Researcher Neil Heffernan Leads Effort To Develop AI *Math* Tutor - ... *learn math* while doing homework. Under a cost-sharing agreement, the DOE's Institute of Education Sciences will contribute $3,749,600, or 90.89 ...
1 hour ago
Analytics India Magazine

Adobe Launches Firefly Image 3 Beta With Auto Stylisation, Structure Reference Capabilities - Currently, the latest version of Firefly is available for beta testing in Photoshop and the Firefly web app. The post Adobe Launches Firefly Image 3 Beta...
1 hour ago
Space.com

Earth got hammered by cosmic rays 41,000 years ago due to a weak magnetic field - Earth's magnetic shield weakened around 41,000 years ago, resulting in increased bombardment of our atmosphere by energetic charged particles called cosmic...
1 hour ago
mathematics

Making sense of the maths | Opinion - Chemistry World - 'Fortunately,' he went on, '*mathematics* is not subject to this limitation, and it has been possible to invent a *mathematical* scheme – the quantum ...
2 hours ago
Science, Africa

Zambian Minister Of Technology Calls For Collaboration Among *African* Countries - The Minister of Technology and *Science* in Zambia believes that *Africa* is becoming the new world and there are lots of opportunities coming up.
2 hours ago
Physics World

Mixing water and oil: no surfactants needed - New finding could have implications for industries that use emulsions The post Mixing water and oil: no surfactants needed appeared first on Physics World.
2 hours ago
Puzzling :: Stack Exchange

A Dangerous Asian Ruler - *What is represented below? The answer is a 9-letter two-word noun.* ------------------------------ [image: enter image description here]
3 hours ago
all the classrooms

State Reps. Vote in favor of HB130, bans LGBTQ topics in elementary and middle schools - Alabama House of Representatives passed HB130, which prohibits *classroom* discussion or providing *classroom* instruction regarding sexual ...
3 hours ago
Education in Africa

*Education* department will hire temps to fill 31 000 teacher vacancies - The Mail & Guardian - The Centre for Development and Enterprise has estimated that South *Africa* will need 456000 teachers by 2025 for the country to offer quality ...
3 hours ago
Research News of Africa

Out of *Africa* revisited: Where did humans migrate after leaving the continent? - A new *study* offers that bands of hunter-gatherers appear to have lingered for thousands of years as a homogeneous population.
3 hours ago
About Scientists

*Scientists* study lipids cell by cell, making new cancer research possible - Phys.org - Imagine being able to look inside a single cancer cell and see how it communicates with its neighbors. *Scientists* are celebrating a new technique ...
3 hours ago
Showerthoughts

You have actively caused more deaths than births - Edit to explain: Everybody has swatted a couple of flies or spiders causing a death. But most people don't breed animals (or themselves). So actively you...
3 hours ago
Science, Nigeria

*Science*, tech critical for *Africa* in agriculture, poverty eradication —Experts - Tribune Online - Why were Miyetti Allah and Tinubu's Iyaloja in Ibadan? 10 states with highest rate ...
3 hours ago
Puzzles

How RAG completes the generative AI *puzzle* - InfoWorld - How RAG completes the generative AI *puzzle*. Retrieval-augmented generation brings to generative AI the one big thing that was holding it back in ...
3 hours ago
Citizen Science

'Bug splat' survey records 'staggering' drop in number of insects squashed on cars - The *citizen science* survey, which asked people to count squashed insects on their number plates, found a fall of 78% across the UK between 2004 and ...
4 hours ago
My Engineers

Remarks of Moussa Faki Mahamat Chairperson of African Union Commission at the Opening Ceremony of the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting in Abuja - Remarks of H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat Chairperson of The African Union Commission at the Opening Ceremony of the High-Level African Counter-Terrorism Meeting...
4 hours ago
Varsity Online

Gown vs town? Local investment plans must remember Cambridge is not just a university - The Cambridge 2040 development plans will only exacerbate the divides in this already unequal city, argues Oscar Chatfield
4 hours ago
Universities // Nigeria

UNN suspends lecturer over alleged sexual harassment of student - Pulse Nigeria - The management of the *University* of *Nigeria*, Nsukka (UNN), has suspended indefinitely David Udo-Udom, the lecturer, allegedly involved in the ...
4 hours ago
Education :: South China Morning Post

Hong Kong public spending watchdog urges academy for gifted students to tackle lack of school nominations for membership - Audit Commission says there has been a ‘lack of enthusiasm’ among schools for applying for academy membership for pupils.
4 hours ago
EarthPorn on reddit

Up close view of the waterfall from our hike Hana,Hawaii [1170x2028] [OC] - [image: Up close view of the waterfall from our hike Hana,Hawaii [1170x2028] [OC]] submitted by /u/icecreampaintjob11 [link] [comments]
4 hours ago
uni

Rabiu Africa Initiative launches N250m sports complex project in UNIJOS - Businessday NG - ... *Campus* of the *University* ... I'm a product of the *university* Games system, a proud winner of gold medals at *Nigeria University* Games Associatio...
4 hours ago
Oxford Internet Institute

U.S. TikTok “ban”—what are the economic implications? -
4 hours ago
The PIE News

Shoko Doherty, Celtic English Academy, Wales - I strongly believe that if we treat our staff well, they will treat our students and agents really well The post Shoko Doherty, Celtic English Academy, W...
4 hours ago
Tech & Learning

Do ChatGPT-Style AI ChatBots Help Students Learn? Yes, But There Are Caveats, Says Research - AI chatbots show promise in helping college students but are less effective for K-12, with the impact on learning seeming to decrease over time
5 hours ago
ESE

NASA Works To Restore Voyager 1 *Engineering* Data Transmissions - Aviation Week - NASA Marks Earth Day With Plans For New Airborne *Environmental Studies* · ingenuity · Grounded, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Continues To ...
5 hours ago
Health + Medicine – The Conversation

Sugar in baby food: why Nestlé needs to be held to account in Africa - Obesity among children is a growing problem in Africa.
6 hours ago
EdSurge Articles

What Do We Gain and Lose When Students Use AI to Write? - If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?If a student uses AI to write and nobody notices, does it matter?I’ll admit: the ...
6 hours ago
Science News :: LeMonde

Global spread of bird flu fuels fears of human contamination - The World Health Organization's chief scientist has expressed his 'enormous concern' as the number of species affected by H5N1 continues to grow, particula...
6 hours ago
Mathematics on reddit

(number theory) how can we solve simultaneous incongruences? - given n not congruent to b1 mod p1, and n not congruent to b2 mod p2, how do we find the common solutions? i tried google, but that just gives the answer...
6 hours ago
DW Environment

Shopping showdown — what's greener, plastic or paper? - Paper packaging is more environmentally friendly than plastic, right? But concealed within this deceptively simple choice are chemical contaminants, market...
6 hours ago
math: optimization and control on arXiv.org

Convex Ternary Quartics Are SOS-Convex - arXiv:2404.14440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove that convex ternary quartic forms are sum-of-squares-convex (sos-convex). This result is in a mean...
7 hours ago
geometry

Grab a Free Venom Formation 3D Effect Made Using Blender - 80 Level - Both Shader Nodes and *Geometry* Nodes were employed to set up the FX.
7 hours ago
About Intelligence

EC transfers Andhra Pradesh *intelligence* chief, Vijayawada Police Commissioner - Vijayawada: The Election Commission transferred two senior IPS officers with immediate effect in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.They are *intelligence* ...
7 hours ago
Indian Institutes of Technology

Meet PhD wife of *IIT* graduate who secured Rs 100 crore package, was fired within a year ... - *India* · Lifestyle · Education · Business · World ... *IIT* graduates are known for their high paying jobs, vision and hardwork. ... *IIT* graduates are ...
7 hours ago
Learning Mathematics

Willow Shares 5 Things You Didn't *Know* About Her Song 'Big Feelings' - Billboard - ... *know*, thinking about lyrics. There was *mathematics*. It was like that meme. You *know* what I'm saying, where there's the *math*. And then No. 4: Th...
7 hours ago
About Physicists

*Physicists* claim that an ideal battery could harness the power of black holes - Recently, two *physicists* have been pondering the ultimate theoretical limit of energy density in batteries, based on Einstein's theory of general ...
7 hours ago
Published on arXiv

How Monte Carlo Tree Search works part7(Machine Learning) - Medium - Deep Generative Symbolic Regression with Monte-Carlo-Tree-Search(*arXiv*). Author : Pierre-Alexandre Kamienny, Guillaume Lample, Sylvain Lamprier ...
8 hours ago
Science News :: Economic Times :: India Times

Japan's moon lander wasn't built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It's still going after 3 - Japan's first moon lander, SLIM, survived harsh lunar nights, monitored by JAXA. Scientists compare moon rocks with Earth for clues on moon's origin. NASA ...
8 hours ago
news :: maths today

Indian Army Agniveer Exam Analysis 2024 (Apr 22): Paper Review, Difficulty Level, Questions Asked - Indian Army Paper Review 2024: *Today's* Indian Army Agniveer paper analysis provides an in-depth understanding and projection of the challenge ...
8 hours ago
Science | The Guardian

Estuaries, the ‘nurseries of the sea’, are disappearing fast - Study reveals repurposing of ecologically vital land for homes or agriculture is happening particularly rapidly in Asia Estuaries – the place where a riv...
9 hours ago
ICTworks

8 Reasons Why International Development Organizations Need Digital Development Advisors - Recently, I was asked a very topical question by the CEO a major international relief organization, “How can international development programs leverage ...
9 hours ago
Maths, Nigeria

Former Ambassador's College Student Bags $3.5m Scholarships to 14 Top Varsities - ... *Nigeria* for the year 2023. Additionally, in the 2023 West *African* Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), Ositade's results were among the ...
10 hours ago
calculus

NYT Crossword Answers for April 24, 2024 - The New York Times - Jump to: Today's Theme | Tricky Clues. WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Today's crossword, by Jeffrey Martinovic, is a doozy, and it reminded me of a seemingly ...
11 hours ago
Education // Nigeria

*Nigerian* Government Considers Raising Tertiary Institution Entry Age to 18 - The *Nigerian* Government, through the Federal Ministry of *Education*, is contemplating setting the minimum entry age into tertiary institutions at ...
12 hours ago
Citizen Science

Drivers counted the number of dead bugs on their number plate for *study* - Daily Express - The *citizen science* survey led by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife showed a 78 percent decline in "bug splats" on number plates across the UK since ...
13 hours ago
Education on reddit

Very broad question, but what are some academical tips you have for starting high school? - Like certain classes that are worth taking, ways to maintain a good GPA, etc. submitted by /u/dymnom [link] [comments]
13 hours ago
Nature Biotechnology

Author Correction: Adenine transversion editors enable precise, efficient A•T-to-C•G base editing in mammalian cells and embryos -
14 hours ago
Visual Capitalist

Charted: Who Has Savings in This Economy? - Older, better-educated adults are winning the savings game, reveals a January survey by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago...
14 hours ago
algebra

NEISD teacher accused of having improper relationship with 17-year-old student, police say - Andrew McCown is an *algebra* teacher and also a football coach at Roosevelt High School. Author: kens5.com. Published: 4:03 PM CDT April 23, 2024.
16 hours ago
Ethereum for Beginners

EXCLUSIVE PRIVATESALE GEMS.VIP + BIG GIVEAWAY - submitted by /u/Sooo118 [link] [comments]
17 hours ago
Gaming x Education

Ex-Cozen O'Connor Atty Moves In-House To DraftKings - Law360 Pulse - ... *gaming* and promote a healthy *gaming* environment for all customers. ... *education*, the company said. Leveraging a ... *education* across all platf...
17 hours ago
Watch The Yard

President Biden Confirmed As Morehouse College’s 2024 Commencement Speaker - Morehouse College made the official announcement today that President Joe Biden will deliver the 2024 commencement speech on May 19th. In an email sent t...
18 hours ago
SciStarter

Citizen Science Month and #OneMillionActsOfScience Needs You! - It’s a packed week, with Earth Day, Arbor Day, The City Nature Challenge and more! The last full week of Citizen Science Month is jam packed! It’s the week...
19 hours ago
About Mathematicians

2 USC faculty members named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows - EurekAlert! - *Mathematician* Paul Newton will use the prestigious fellowship to investigate cancer models; composer Nicolás Lell Benavides will complete several ...
19 hours ago
ScienceDaily

Super Mario hackers' tricks could protect software from bugs - Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students suggest.
20 hours ago
Entomology Today

How a High-School Beekeeper Made Her Way to USDA Honey Bee Researcher - [image: A smiling woman with shoulder-length hair and glasses, dressed in a white beekeeper's suit with the hood off, stands next to a lush green tree on a...
20 hours ago
Inderscience news

Blowing the froth off real estate - A detailed analysis of Vietnam’s real estate market aimed to identify the factors that contribute to the formation of real estate bubbles. The study, pub...
21 hours ago
IEEE Spectrum

Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors - The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the n...
22 hours ago
Community :: Mathematical Societies

2024 PME Lecture: Richard Hoshino, "*Mathematical* Problem-Solving and Computational Thinking" - ... society. In 2017, he became the youngest-ever recipient of the Adrien Pouliot Award, awarded by the Canadian *Mathematical Society* as a lifetime ...
22 hours ago
Udacity

Udacity Named Global Leader in World’s Top EdTech Companies Award List - Today, Udacity has been recognized as one of the World’s Top EdTech Companies of 2024 by TIME in partnership with Statista. This inaugural list celebrates ...
22 hours ago
TED-Ed videos

Does math have a major flaw? - Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek -
22 hours ago
Quanta Magazine

AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities - Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles...
23 hours ago
Hubble Telescope Picture of the Week

Photo Release: Hubble celebrates 34th anniversary with a look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula - [image: Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76)]In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of the legendary NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on 24 April, ast...
1 day ago
Coursera Blog

How to answer interview questions with the STAR method - Last week in our job interview series, we talked about behavioral interview questions, which ask about your past experiences in the workplace. This week,...
1 day ago
symmetry magazine

A collaborative ecosystem - Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.
1 day ago
Drug Target Review

Overcoming the complexity of free energy perturbation calculations - In this article, Dr Robert Scoffin, Chairman and CEO at Cresset, explores FEP and its current challenges, and outlines how continuous advancements and stra...
1 day ago
African x Math(s)

Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor's International Scholarship - *African* Women in STEM ... - This scholarship is introduced to support those who share the passion for studying in the area of Science, Technology, Engineering, and *Mathematics* , ...
1 day ago
Space in Africa

Egypt Signs MoU for Long-Term Space Investments and Partnerships with Italy - During a state visit to Egypt by the Minister of Industries and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, the President of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Teodoro Valent...
1 day ago
Health :: Dutch News

Ban on smoke flavour may be worst case scenario for Hema sausage - A decision by the European Commission to ban the use of harmful smoke flavourings could spell the end of the...
1 day ago
Education – IT News Afr

Tech Innovator Enables Educators Close Digital Gap in Africa - Tangible Africa, a tech innovator based in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province, is bridging Africa’s digital divide. Funded and supported by the world’s...
1 day ago
MindShift

Distracted Students? Understanding These 3 Myths of Attention Span Can Help - Endless focus is not a realistic goal for tech use. Psychologist Gloria Mark provides advice to help young people focus in the digital era.
1 day ago
Science | dw.com

Malaria: Why aren't case numbers falling? - Since 2015, the number of malaria cases worldwide have stalled and ― in some areas, they're even increasing. That's after two decades of falling numbers. W...
1 day ago
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA: Most-Read Full-Text Articles

In This Issue - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 17, April 2024.
1 day ago
Mathematics Educators :: Stack Exchange

Students Needed For AI Study Tool - My friend and I from another college need 100 who are interested in AI within the educational system. We are looking for people to fill out a survey for ...
1 day ago
PODCAST :: The Naked Scientists

ADHD explained - This week on The Naked Scientists, we're going to take a closer look at attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - which is usually referred to by its acro...
1 day ago
Science Teachers on reddit

Molecular Genetics Lab - Hi all. Teaching sbi4u and would love some inspo for any labs, activities or investigations you’ve done. We cover dna rep and gene expression. The challe...
1 day ago
Science | The Atlantic

A Dentist Found a Jawbone in a Floor Tile - Fossils are quite common in this type of stone, but human-looking ones are not.
1 day ago
Education – Punch Newspapers

NERC transfers regulatory oversight to Enugu Electricity Commission - The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has ordered the transfer of regulatory oversight of the electricity market in Enugu State to the Enugu Sta...
1 day ago
Ancientfoods

I just wanted to share these extraordinary photos…no more needs to be said -
1 day ago
Education – The Conversation

Academics with disabilities: South African universities need an overhaul to make them genuinely inclusive - If universities want to be truly inclusive, that must extend to people with disabilities, whether they are students or staff.
2 days ago
Science + Technology – The Conversation

MeerKAT: the South African radio telescope that’s transformed our understanding of the cosmos - MeerKAT has made remarkable contributions to South African and international science.
2 days ago
TechTalks

How to turn any LLM into an embedding model - Researchers at Quebec AI Institute (Mila) have released LLM2Vec, a technique that can turn any decoder-only LLM into a universal embedding model. The po...
2 days ago
FutureLearn

How to become a cyber security analyst - [image: man on laptop]Interested in becoming a cyber security analyst? Discover where a career in cyber security could take you.
2 days ago
History of Science and Mathematics :: Stack Exchange

Earliest real-world uses of calculus and linear algebra - I want to illustrate in class that real-world applications of mathematics might take time to come to fruit. In this context, I want to find what the earl...
2 days ago
Owlcation

5 Strange Moral Panics - Society doesn't adjust quickly to new or strange things, and sometimes that sparks a moral panic. Here are five of the strangest things that society has pa...
2 days ago
Environment + Energy – The Conversation

Blue whales: first discovery near Seychelles in decades – what our study found - The first dedicated scientific surveys have confirmed the presence of blue whales in Seychelles.
3 days ago
The Gradient

Financial Market Applications of LLMs - The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer...
3 days ago
Health – Observer

11 Pairs of Men’s Trail Running Shoes for All Your Upcoming Adventures - No matter your speed, when the wild comes calling, you'd better be strapped into a pair of kicks that will carry you from rugged trailhead to jaw-dropping ...
4 days ago
Terence Tao

Two announcements: AI for Math resources, and erdosproblems.com - This post contains two unrelated announcements. Firstly, I would like to promote a useful list of resources for AI in Mathematics, that was initiated by Ta...
4 days ago
SIAM News

Congratulations to the 2024 SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program Recipients - SIAM is excited to announce four new researchers who will receive funding through the SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program , the second set of awardees in thi...
4 days ago
SIAM Careers

Congratulations to the 2024 SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program Recipients - SIAM is excited to announce four new researchers who will receive funding through the SIAM Postdoctoral Support Program , the second set of awardees in thi...
4 days ago
Science: Current Issue

A naturally isolated symbiotic bacterium suppresses flavivirus transmission by Aedes mosquitoes | Science - The commensal microbiota of the mosquito gut plays a complex role in determining the vector competence for arboviruses. In this study, we identified a bact...
5 days ago
The Aperiodical

Hidden in Plane Sight - This is a guest post by Elliott Baxby, a maths undergraduate student who wants to share an appreciation of geometrical proofs. I remember the days well whe...
5 days ago
SIAM Research Notes

A is for Applied: Adventures in Wildlife Tracking - By Sivan Toledo Applied mathematicians and other applied scientists must determine their level of commitment to the real-world applications of their resear...
5 days ago
Journal of STEM Outreach

Promoting Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences with the Teen Science Ambassador Program - We describe the Teen Science Ambassador Program (TSAP), created to provide underrepresented minoritized (URM) high school students with science-focused edu...
6 days ago
World Economic Forum | Agenda | Education and Skills

Why we need global minimum quality standards in EdTech - EdTech platforms will play a key role in meeting UN development goals on education. But first, we need a global standardized way to measure their impact.
1 week ago
Education :: Dutch News

Bad marks for more schools: inspectors call for higher standards - School inspectors say an increasing number of Dutch schools are performing below par and a large group of children are...
1 week ago
Up Naira ... $weet '16

After the reggae, play the blues - Make sure you subscribe! Follow on facebook. Order Big Girl and Big Boy. Read More on Money Talk at www.UPNAIRA.blogspot.com
1 week ago
of robots

*Robot* football comes to Naas - Kildare Nationalist - ... *maths* workshops. In these demonstrations, members of the RoboEireann team from Maynooth University will explain how the *robots* work and how they ...
1 week ago
Mathematics Learning

Factor and Multiple game -
1 week ago
Education | The Atlantic

The Man Who Died for the Liberal Arts - In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor—my uncle—wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for.
1 week ago
The Trendy Science Teacher

Boosting Biology Exam Scores with Spiral Reviews - As educators, one of our primary goals is to ensure our students learn, retain, and apply information effectively. Achieving this can often be a daunting...
1 week ago
AMS New Books

Recent Developments in Fractal Geometry and Dynamical Systems - [image: CONM 797] Sangita Jha, Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury and Saurabh Verma, editors. American Mathematical Society, 2024, CONM, volume 797, approx. 268 p...
1 week ago
India.com :: Science

Chandrayaan-4 Under Development, ISRO Chief S Somanath Calls It First Step Towards India Landing Astronaut On Moon - ISRO Chief S Somanath, in a press conference, revealed that Chandrayaan-4 is under development and this mission will be the first step towards India landin...
2 weeks ago
AMS News

Wigderson Receives 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award - Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) has received the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award fo...
2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Healthcare – IT News Africa

Remedial Health Unveils Updated App for African Pharmacies - Remedial Health, a health tech startup focused on enhancing Africa’s pharmaceutical value chain efficiency, has introduced an updated version of its cust...
2 weeks ago
Math visualized

4D Movie: "Four-Dimensional Descriptive Geometry" by Lindgren and Slaby Part 2 of 2 - [image: 4D Movie: "Four-Dimensional Descriptive Geometry" by Lindgren and Slaby Part 2 of 2] submitted by /u/4D_Movie [link] [comments]
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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 weeks ago
Science is Beauty

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Piekniewski's blog

Fat tails are weird - If you have taken a statistics class it may have included stuff like basic measure theory. Lebesgue measures and integrals and their relations to other m...
3 weeks ago
life liberty happiness

The best rice - Like a white T-shirt, like a skeleton, the best rice is like a vehicle bearing gifts or at least bearing passengers. It's Easter, and I'm feeling blessed t...
3 weeks ago
Stephen Wolfram Blog

When Exactly Will the Eclipse Happen? A Multimillennium Tale of Computation - Updated and expanded from a post for the eclipse of August 21, 2017. Preparing for April 8, 2024 On April 8, 2024, there’s going to be a total eclipse of t...
3 weeks 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 ...
3 weeks ago
Chalkdust

The Spirit of Mathematics - We review the ninth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year The post The Spirit of Mathematics appeared first on Chalkdust.
3 weeks ago
IBM THINK Blog

Achieving sustainability ambitions with IBM AI technology - I recently attended The Economist Sustainability Week where I had some interesting conversations with other Heads of Sustainability. The one common threa...
3 weeks 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.
5 weeks ago
Mathematical Moments :: AMS

Smashing Particles up Against Mathematics - Dr. Abiy Tasissa of Tufts University, discusses the mathematics he and colleagues used to study particle collider data, including optimal transport and opt...
1 month ago
Calculus blog :: teachers and students

AP Exam Review 2024 - For several years now, I’ve been posting a series of notes on reviewing for the AP Calculus Exams. The questions on the AP Calculus exams, both multiple-ch...
1 month ago
plus.maths.org

Artificial intelligence and deep learning: Your questions answered - Find out about this important new technology and be part of the conversation.
1 month ago
Team4Tech

Continued Impact for Women and Girls In Uganda Through Employee Volunteering - In our latest employee volunteering program, Team4Tech connected a skilled team from Cadence Design Systems with staff from our long-time NGO partner, Wo...
1 month ago
Continuous Everywhere but Differentiable Nowhere

A record of conference takeaways — TCM 2024 - On Thursday, after school, I hopped in an Uber to the airport. I was flying to a conference, the “Teaching Contemporary Mathematics” conference (TCM) held ...
2 months ago
Math Mama Writes...

Free Online Math Circle Has a Few Spots Open Still - We picked a time. We're meeting for nine weeks, each Saturday from March 2 to April 27, for an hour, at 3pm PT / 6pm ET. We still have a few spots op...
2 months ago
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Siyakhula – We Are Growing (AIMS @20 Celebrations) - The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) is turning 20, the German Research Chairs in Africa are turning 12, and the (DSI-NRF) Centre of Exce...
2 months ago
Science – News Ghana

Parents Must Sign Digital Use Contracts With Their Children: A Ghanaian Perspective - News Ghana, Latest Updates and Breaking News of Ghana, Nana Beeko, https://newsghana.com.gh/parents-must-sign-digital-use-contracts-with-their-children-a-gh...
2 months ago
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

ClipDrop – Easily Remove Image Backgrounds - In the realm of digital imagery, the power to manipulate and refine photos is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity, especially in the world of education a...
2 months 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 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Education – Vanguard News

2024 UTME: We didn’t increase registration fee – JAMB - The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,has denied reports that it increased its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) regist...
4 months ago
Fractus Learning

Essential Telescope Tripod Safety Tips for Young Astronomers - Embarking on a journey through the stars? Safety is paramount! Here’s a beginners guide on tripod safety, ensuring a secure and enjoyable stargazing experi...
4 months ago
TechCrunch

LimeWire AI Studio Review 2023: Details, Pricing & Features - In the rapidly advancing landscape of AI technology and innovation, LimeWire emerges as a unique platform in the realm of generative AI tools. This pl...
4 months ago
Blog | Intellectual Mathematics

Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers? - Copernicus’s planetary models contain elements also found in the works of late medieval Islamic astronomers associated with the Maragha School, including t...
4 months ago
notes on Ethereum by Vitalik Buterin

My techno-optimism -
4 months ago
RoboticsBiz

What steps should you take before a DDoS attack? - In today’s interconnected digital landscape, businesses and organizations rely heavily on the internet to deliver services, communicate, and conduct tran...
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
8 months 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/.
8 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
BorschtWithAnna

Implementing Building Thinking Classrooms with Students with Learning Differences - Last week, I presented at the Building Thinking Classrooms Conference in Franklin, Indiana on implementing BTC with students with learning differences. I...
9 months ago
Facebook Research

How generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads - Our research study, in collaboration with CrowdDNA, aims to understand people's relationship with social media ads across different social media platforms.
11 months ago
Co-Creation Hub Nigeria

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11 months ago
mms.mathnet.ru

After the start of the war, dozens of famous scientists left Russia | odessa-journal.com - Among them are Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the *Moscow Mathematical Society* Viktor Vasiliev, Corresponding Member ...
1 year ago
The Accidental Mathematician

Vanishing sums of roots of unity - A root of unity is a complex number such that for some positive integer . This means that for some integer ; if is relatively prime to , we say that is a p...
1 year ago
Al-Fanar Media

Earthquake Tragedy Highlights Need for Arab Social Research on Natural Disasters - After the Turkey-Syria quakes, a mass communication scholar at Alexandria University calls for the establishment of an Arab research centre to study natura...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Chronic Engineer

Reading in the age of social media - Image attribution: Charles James Lewis, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Charles-james-lewis-reading-by-the-w...
1 year ago
X Bubbler

It's time... - but don't go away. Keep up with my other blogs. Read my books. Stay mathy. ✌
1 year ago
Howard University News

Homecoming 2022: The Meccaverse (October 15-23, 2022) - Homecoming 2022: The Meccaverse (October 15-23, 2022) kweli.zukeri Wed, 10/19/2022 - 19:48 This year Homecoming theme celebrates the multiverse that is Ho...
1 year ago
travelthroughhistory

- [image: Add to Technorati Favorites] Keeping this up to date, I am currently doing the final edits on my new novel DRAGONS IN THE SKY a first-person nar...
1 year ago
Gowers's Weblog

Announcing an automatic theorem proving project - I am very happy to say that I have recently received a generous grant from the Astera Institute to set up a small group to work on automatic theorem provin...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
The Earth Story

wicks-photo:Manly Beacon Trail Death Valley National Park - wicks-photo: Manly Beacon Trail Death Valley National Park
2 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...
2 years ago
The Anticareerist

Daftar Situs Judi Slot Online Terpercaya No 1 Indonesia - Content Game Judi Online Slot Gacor Jackpot Terbesar Hari Ini Pragmatic88 Game Slot Online Asian Fantasy Hal Positif Dalam Permainan Slot Online Akses Herc...
2 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. *...
2 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.
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Reflections of a High School Math Teacher

The Magic of Students Doing Challenging Questions in Groups of Three on Vertical Surfaces in the Math Classroom - I read Peter Liljedahl's book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics this past summer and it has been transformational in my teaching. Getting all ...
2 years ago
nature.com blogs

Interactions: Ghina M. Halabi - Originally posted on - blogs by NPG staff Ghina M. Halabi is an astrophysicist and social entrepreneur, whose work lies at the intersection of science, en...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Science Editors' Choice

Separating the stages of germination -
2 years ago
interdisciplinary on reddit

Design of Solar Sailing Trajectories Resilient to Safe Mode Events - [image: Design of Solar Sailing Trajectories Resilient to Safe Mode Events] submitted by /u/Gereshes [link] [comments]
2 years ago
Book Ends

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts - Today on the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Scholarly Kitchen blog, in the first of a two-part series, AMS Associate Executive Director for Publishing ...
2 years ago
Science and Research :: South China Morning Post

SCMP Global Impact Newsletter, SIGN UP NOW - Curated by our award-winning team of journalists, this must-read newsletter explores the impact of emerging topics originating from China, and their signif...
2 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....
2 years ago
Math and Multimedia

8 Youtube Channels for Learning Mathematics - 1. 3blue1brown 3blue1brown contains in-depth discussions of varied topics in mathematics and computer science accompanied by stunning animations. Some ...
2 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...
3 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, ...
3 years ago
Popular Science

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine completely prevents severe illness and death - AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine is 100 percent effective at preventing serious illness and 79 percent effective at preventing symptomatic disease.
3 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 sof...
3 years ago
AMS Feature Column

Lost (and found) in space -
3 years ago
The polymath blog - Collaborative advanced maths

Polymath projects 2021 - After the success of Polymath1 and the launching of Polymath3 and Polymath4, Tim Gowers wrote a blog post “Possible future Polymath projects” for plannin...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Homeschool Math Blog

Never give up! A story by 8-year old Savannah - This is a wonderful story by a girl about her experiences with math... have your kids read it! Note how she learns when the teacher allows her to cor...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
Google Student Blog

My Path to Google - Rahul Patel, Associate Partner Manager - Welcome to the 46th installment of our blog series “My Path to Google.” These are real stories from Googlers, interns, and alumni highlighting how they go...
3 years ago
Khan Academy

Helping students who need it most: how one teacher keeps kids learning over the summer - Kenya McGriff understands the importance of keeping students learning over the summer, this year especially. Every summer students show patterns of learn...
3 years ago
ScienceBusiness.net

Healthy Measures: Why health outcomes matter for Europe’s future - Healthy Measures: Why health outcomes matter for Europe’s future COVID-19 has shattered many conventions about how healthcare should be designed and deliv...
3 years ago
AMS News +

Just Equations Blog: A Tour -
3 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…
3 years ago
Mother Nature Network

Forest products help power local economies - Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs help weather tough times.
3 years ago
Cosmos Magazine

Early disc galaxy puts theories in a spin - It’s huge and distant, so how did it form?
3 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...
3 years ago
Authentic Inquiry Maths

Results from the Maths Attitude Survey - We got all 120 of the Year 4 students to complete the Maths Attitude Survey last week. (My dream is to get the whole of the school to do it, but we crawl b...
4 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...
4 years ago
Math Teacher Mambo

End Of Year Letter to Myself - *Dear 2019 May Self,* Hi! Remember when you were this young? And remember how in the past you have made students write letters to the incoming kids in yo...
4 years ago
scienceofus

What Is Autophagy? - Right when I’d gotten used to intermittent fasting…
4 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Change Over Time

Low-Poly Art for Students - Hey ya'll, We're about to get into some geometry for both of my math classes. I teach an Accelerated 7th-Grade Math class and a standard 7th-Grade Math cla...
5 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. ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Visual Insight

This blog is no longer active - This blog is no longer active, although the posts are archived here. See the AMS’s Mathematical Imagery, a collection of images that may interest you.
5 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, ...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
6 years ago
Divisible by 3 [Andrew Stadel]

True Confessions of A Math Teacher - *During the 2018-19 school year,* I'm interested in presenting on the valuable role that reflection plays on our growth as professional educators. Part of ...
6 years ago
Mr Reddy Maths Blog

SHINE Trust speech at the House of Lords - Tonight I spoke at a SHINE Trust event at the House of Lords. I talked about the transition from primary to secondary and how there are great teachers who ...
6 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.
6 years ago
Middle School Math Rules!

Anchor Charts - Today I stayed after school to create some anchor charts my regular 7th grade math classes. We are currently working on 7.EE.A.1 "Apply properties of oper...
6 years ago
Math Game Time

4 Ways to Teach Math Through Storytelling - Long before the written word, significant cultural ideas passed from generation to generation through storytelling. It is an artform meant to be shared amo...
6 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...
14 years ago

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