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• He’s immobile, but his story has the power to move
Gifford had all she could do to keep from reaching for the tissues as she told Carr that he would be getting on a plane that day to come to New York to be on TODAY. A first-class mind (he has a degree in mathematics) in a body confined to a ...
• World’s most beautiful gardens
But if terrific gardens can express the unrestrained beauty and emotional pull of art, they can also exhibit the precision of mathematics. Not just in the kind of symmetry evident in a formal English garden, but in their clean lines and manicured ...
• The Grid we live in
The discreteness of particles is an illusion caused by the resonances between smooth waves in different dimensions. This is a start -- all words, no elegant mathematics. Now, can anyone out there in cyberspace help me fill in the details? -- Josh ...
• Cosmic Log: Meteorite case closed?
Based entirely on a basic but solid understanding of mathematics and physics, it certainly appears that an object weighing 10 tons should create a bigger crater, unless the object is very small (which introduces more questions than answers). Closer ...
• Poker site cheating plot a high-stakes whodunit
When that information was posted, Michael Josem, a mathematics-minded Australian poker player, charted NioNio’s results in comparison to the results of 870 “normal” accounts with at least 2,500 hands recorded by poker-tracking software.  The ...