Mathematics
- Simple Stats Let You Win More Than You Lose When Playing The Lottery
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So goes popular opinion: the lottery’s an egregious societal evil implemented and overseen by shape-shifting, blood-drinking reptilian aliens. And that may be largely true – designed to slowly and quietly bleed dry your pockets – that is, unless you learn ...
Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 8 2012 - 12:39am
- Mathematics For Amphibians
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Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 19 2012 - 9:47pm
- Future Versus Past: Google Searches Correlated To GDP
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Countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to have searches for information about the future than information about the past, according to an analysis of Google search queries in Scientific Reports. Is there a link bet ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2012 - 2:30pm
- Competitive Number-Crunching: A Science 2.0 Sport
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When storage is cheap, finding data has value. A $600 hard drive can store all of the world's music so how do you find a song you like? Math can answer those mysteries, says Kaggle president and chief scientist Jeremy Howard, and in a world of informa ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2012 - 4:00am
- Mathematicians Pull An Invisible Matter Rabbit Out Of Schrödinger's Hat
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You've read a lot about 'invisibility ' over the last few years. Mathematicians and scientists have been working on various devices that enable invisibility cloaks which shield small objects from detection by microwaves or sound waves. ...
Article - News Staff - May 30 2012 - 7:49pm
- A Skeleton Key For Network Complexity
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Very different complex networks, like global air traffic and neural networks, share very similar 'backbones', say a group of mathematicians, and by stripping each network down to their essential nodes and links, they found each network possesses ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2012 - 12:00pm
- Is There A Mathematical Code To The Universe?
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I make fun of numerology but I kind of like it. I can like it and still make fun of it because I don't take it too seriously. Want to claim there is a mathematical secret, far beyond human intelligence, buried in religious texts? Sure, I will listen, ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2012 - 12:11pm
- Fundamentals of Mathematics-"An Idea" Far from reality.
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Mathematics is a fundamental code of Universe.It definitely connects the nature. But the present system of mathematics may be modified.The reason is---- Man created a language called mathematics which must be in synchronization with physical world(we can ...
Blog Post - Siva Prasad Kodukula - Jun 26 2012 - 12:42pm
- Climate Change: Different Tree Ring And Oxygen Isotope Data Are A Good Thing
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If you want to understand the larger spatial patterns and timing of drought in the arid and semiarid areas of the American West, you will need to look at t ree ring and oxygen isotope data. Estimates of past precipitation are made from proxies like tree ri ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2012 - 5:12pm
- Power Law Tail Economics And A Physics Way To Redistribute Wealth
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Physicists doing economics has gotten a bad rap- a practically worldwide recession will do that- but it's no reason to give up, especially if you are of the world view that redistributing wealth is better than a free market. Models designed to represe ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2012 - 1:10pm
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