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| 06.04.09 PhysOrg.com "Why is everybody suddenly wearing those new sandals and listening to that new band? It's so trendy!" A recent study has investigated this sentiment in order to understand why some cultural products and styles die out faster than others...." | |
| 05.29.09 PhysOrg.com "It's a long-standing and crucial question that, as yet, remains unanswered: just how common is scientific misconduct? In the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Daniele Fanelli of the University of Edinburgh reports the first meta-analysis of surveys questioning scientists about their misbehaviours. The results suggest that altering or making up data is more frequent than previously estimated and might be particularly high in medical research..." | |
| 05.08.09 PhysOrg.com "Prime numbers have intrigued curious thinkers for centuries. On one hand, prime numbers seem to be randomly distributed among the natural numbers with no other law than that of chance. But on the other hand, the global distribution of primes reveals a remarkably smooth regularity..." | |
| 03.29.09 Go Healthy Go Fit "By this point, I’m fairly certain that the general public understands that statistics can in fact be manipulated in order to show a more favorable outcome. But I would venture to say that most don’t understand how (or attempt to for that matter) they mislead, and knowing how they are manipulated is the only way to understand what the numbers really illustrate..." | |
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Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Math Theorist Who Clashed With Soviets, Dies at 79 |
03.04.09 New York Times "Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, whose outstanding mathematical contributions stretched over a long career despite hardships as a Jew in the Soviet Union and later the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease, died Feb. 21 in Tel Aviv. He was 79..." |
| 12.12.08 New York Times "You arrive at the bus stop to catch the ride to work, but the bus isn’t there. Your destination isn’t very far, so you think, Hmm, maybe I should just walk. But then you might find yourself halfway between stops when the bus whips past, which would be deeply annoying. What to do? Should you walk or should you wait? | |
| 07.25.08 New York Times "Three years after the president of Harvard, Lawrence H. Summers, got into trouble for questioning women’s “intrinsic aptitude” for science and engineering — and 16 years after the talking Barbie doll proclaimed that “math class is tough” — a study paid for by the National Science Foundation has found that girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests..." | |
| 05.10.08 ThaIndian Newsportal "A new study has claimed that the research done by the US Department of the Interior to determine if global warming threatens the polar bear population is so flawed that it cannot be used to justify listing the polar bear as an endangered species..." | |
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| 08.01.00 Discover "..Campbell worries that stocking up on skim milk and low-fat yogurt—or going organic because of concerns about cows exposed to pesticides, antibiotics, and bovine growth hormones—may offer only limited protection against the potential health hazards of milk..." | |
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Axing math anxiety
- Education Digest, 2000 |
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