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Şirince, a village close to İzmir in Turkey, was in the media spotlight last year because of the doomsday predictions based on a Mayan prophecy saying that the world would end on Dec. 2, 2012. Those people who believed in the prophecy flocked to two ...
2013-07-27 12:42:15
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Maybe a few footnotes wouldn’t have been so bad. The centerpiece of “Thinking in Numbers’’ is Tammet’s account of a strange performance in which he recited 22,514 digits of pi, from memory, to a crowded lecture hall in Oxford.
2013-07-27 09:47:55
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They have been doing this for 40 years now. Some of the founders of AIMT are no more. But the ideology they lived for still stands tall. In the midst of the quest, they also try to address an issue that has bothered kids and parents for ...
2013-07-27 09:58:21
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UW Bothell master of education student Joshua Kwon is the institution’s first Martinez Fellow.
2013-07-24 06:47:53
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MICHIGAN CITY — Barker Middle School science teacher Amy Hamann has been selected as a finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST), the highest recognition for math and science teachers in the country.
2013-07-27 05:49:33
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Originally posted at Monty Pelerin's World blog , Extreme Fear Is Reasonable It is nearly impossible to convince people that an economic ending is likely, perhaps inevitable. It is beyond anything they have seen or can imagine. I attribute that to a normalcy bias, an inherent weakness of experiential learners. For many, accepting something that has not occurred during their time on the planet is ...
2013-07-27 03:40:27
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Ever since the days of Hack-a-Shaq, teams have been on the lookout for big men with poor free-throw shooting percentages so that they can exploit basketball’s free-throw rules to their advantage. Sporting a career 57.7% free throw shooting percentage ...
2013-07-26 10:51:00
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Four Indian-American professors are among 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists selected for the Simons Investigators awards for their cutting edge research.
2013-07-27 10:22:21
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Currently working at Stanford University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania University, they will each receive USD 100,000 a year for five years, for their long-term research with the possibility of renewal for five additional ...
2013-07-26 06:20:27
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Federal funding for gun control research was essentially nonexistent for nearly two decades, but President Barack Obama in January labeled firearm deaths a public health crisis and ended the longstanding freeze. About 11,000 Americans die each year from ...
2013-07-26 08:58:27
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Texas A&M University is one of three Texas universities awarded a grant to help create ways to better educate K-12 students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.
2013-07-27 12:09:58
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Washington, July 27 (IANS) Four Indian American professors are among the 13 mathematicians, theoretical physicists and theoretical computer scientists who have won 2013 Simons Investigators awards.
2013-07-26 11:58:03
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California, July 27 (ANI): Aiming to quell heated national debate about gun control with factual answers, two UC Irvine mathematicians have designed parameters to measure how to best prevent both one-on-one killings and mass shootings in the United States.
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