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What America Can Learn About Smart Schools in Other Countries The US fared poorly, as usual, in a worldwide ranking of students’ test scores, but it showed significant gains among disadvantaged teenagers. December 9, 2016 at 02:24AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2hrTSgW

Times I Have Actually Used Math Since High School "My college roommate Samantha and I plan to meet in our favorite city, Chicago, even though Samantha lives in Paris and I live in Boston. If my train leaves Boston at 4 p.m. going ninety miles per hour, and Samantha’s train leaves Paris at 3 p.m. going eighty-five miles per hour..." December 4, 2016 at 10:03PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2gEIscI

Nacho Vhenan on Twitter It's all pretty straight forward math, really. Frog plus neural network equals constantly shifting terror orb. November 27, 2016 at 11:58AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2fTjqmR

What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This Paul Ford's magnum opus on computer code, how it works, and how it pervades our lives is still worth the long, long read. November 26, 2016 at 08:25AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2gJT76P

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The Seven Bridges Of Königsberg, As Explained By One Kooky Mathematician When not busy saving Marty with his DeLorean, Cliff here likes to set up fabric islands in his living room to parse apart centuries-old mathematical problems. November 2, 2016 at 03:14PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2fwgCk1

Surviving The Suicide Circle: The Morbidly Fascinating Josephus Problem Legend has it, that Jewish soldiers, surrounded by the Roman army, decided to avoid capture through group suicide. But Josephus didn't want to die... How could he use math to make it out alive? October 28, 2016 at 12:41PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2e4ZA9G

Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Other Infinities, And Now Our Minds Are Broken You'd think that two infinities would always be the same size — infinite. But as YouTuber Undefined Behavior cleverly explains with Pokémon, one infinity can be larger than another. We're going to go take a nap now. October 25, 2016 at 01:48PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2dFMy4g

Meet The Trump Movement's Post-Truth, Post-Math Anti-Nate Silver As the final weeks of the presidential campaign devolve into accusations of conspiracy and fraud, the most talked-about Trump supporter might be a poll-hating Twitter pundit who has no official role with the campaign. October 19, 2016 at 09:42AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2eknrRa

A Young Savant's Clever Way To Visualize Numbers As Shapes Math genius Jacob "Jake" Barnett was interviewed by 60 Minutes back in 2012. On the show, Barnett said he makes shapes corresponding to numbers — here, Simon Pampena breaks down the process. October 18, 2016 at 04:25PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2e3EclW

Nate Silver and the Psychological Addiction of Checking the Polls Evan is a poll obsessive. There's a lot of people out there just like Evan. Psychologists say that’s partially because sites like FiveThirtyEight are designed in a way that’s meant to be irresistible to some people. October 17, 2016 at 07:28AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2ecVuKI

What Do The Reviews Have To Say About 'The Accountant'? Ben Affleck returns to theaters in "The Accountant," the story of an autistic financial consultant/money launderer for bad dudes/highly-trained killer. Is it any good? October 14, 2016 at 01:37PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2eASCuU

What Makes 'Tetris' So Darn Addictive No characters. No crazy effects. There really isn't all that much to "Tetris" and, yet, it is one of the best-selling video games of all time. Born out of humble beginnings in a Soviet computer lab, what is it about this game that makes it so beloved? October 11, 2016 at 05:10PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2e4Z6h8

Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math The latest effort to overhaul math and science education offers a fundamental rethinking of the basic structure of knowledge. But will it be given time to work? October 7, 2016 at 09:41AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2e6I4TU

Why Blind People Are Better at Math The leading theory is that because they cannot rely on visual cues or written materials to remember things, they develop stronger working memory than the sighted, which is critical to doing well at math. But that's not the only explanation. October 4, 2016 at 05:46PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2dFp1LY

You keep using that physics word No, those physicists aren't going to eat human meat in a farm structure. To them, "Cannibalism" and "Barn" mean something entirely different. September 29, 2016 at 03:00PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2dullh0

4 Courses & 49 Hours of Content to Turn You Into Your Office's Excel Wizard Folks, if there was ever a single software worth learning, it's Excel. This bundle comes with four broad, CPD-accredited courses and 49 hours of content for both PC and Mac, taking your skills from beginner to advanced. September 28, 2016 at 12:48PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2dDjqtU

So... How Much Would It Cost To Live On The Moon? Using some Mark Watney-style math, we can calculate that the approximate costs of living on the moon for one year would come to... let's see... ah, "way too frickin' much." September 27, 2016 at 01:59PM via Digg http://ift.tt/2d473Is

How A Two-Dimensional Curve Can Take Up Real 3D Space "When you go infinitely far, BOOM. You've got everything." September 26, 2016 at 09:06AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2cw9FIP

Misleading Men: How Danny Glover Used ‘Lethal Weapon’ For His Own Causes Film fame allowed Glover to do the things he really cared about. September 26, 2016 at 12:39AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2cVfWkv