Quanta Magazine > 0; if (typeof predicate !== ‘function’) { throw new TypeError(‘predicate must be a function’); } var thisArg = arguments[1]; var k = 0; while (k We care about your data, and we’d like to use cookies to give you a smooth browsing experience. Please agree and read more about our privacy policy.Agree… Continue reading She Decodes Quakes From Undersea Volcanoes (and Taylor Swift)
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
Nine patients did simple calculations in their heads while researchers recorded their brain activity. Sure enough, in the data, Nieder and Mormann saw neurons firing for their preferred numbers — the first time number neurons had been identified in the human brain. They published their findings in Neuron in 2018. Neuroscientists are of course driven… Continue reading Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better
What It Feels Like to Survive an IED Blast
The following is an excerpt from River City One: A Novel (Knox Press; November 7, 2023). I’m laughing now because I can still see him. He’s got his helmet on, the chinstrap dangling and tobacco spit coming off his lip. I tell you the right side of his face was blown up like a puffer… Continue reading What It Feels Like to Survive an IED Blast
A New Generation of Mathematicians Pushes Prime Number Barriers
If this hypothesis is correct, that would mean that when you’re sieving up to 1 trillion, you can cross off multiples of 2, then 3, then 5, and keep going until the inclusion/exclusion sum starts to involve divisors over about 1 million — beyond that point, you can’t calculate the terms in your sum. In… Continue reading A New Generation of Mathematicians Pushes Prime Number Barriers
The Questing Beast (King Arthur, Medieval Mystery)
Podcast: Download MYS284: The tales of King Arthur are filled with mysterious creatures, including one called the Questing Beast. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss this strange and mysterious cryptid, whether it was just a creature of Medieval imagination or if it could have a basis in the real world. Get all new episodes automatically… Continue reading The Questing Beast (King Arthur, Medieval Mystery)
A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling
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Hamas Ally CAIR Has Been Operating With Impunity Inside America for 30 Years
Above, Nihad Awad of CAIR is featured with pro-Palestinian Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar in 2019 in a magazine opposed to Israeli “aggression and oppression.” The FBI has been investigating CAIR for decades — with no charges filed. By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 8, 2023 After Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women and children in Israel… Continue reading Hamas Ally CAIR Has Been Operating With Impunity Inside America for 30 Years
Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical and Social Worlds
A fruit bat hanging in the corner of a cave stirs; it is ready to move. It scans the space to look for a free perch and then takes flight, adjusting its membranous wings to angle an approach to a spot next to one of its fuzzy fellows. As it does so, neurological data lifted… Continue reading Bats Use the Same Brain Cells to Map Physical and Social Worlds
The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory
There are three kinds of prime numbers. The first is a solitary outlier: 2, the only even prime. After that, half the primes leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 4. The other half leave a remainder of 3. (5 and 13 fall in the first camp, 7 and 11 in the second.) There… Continue reading The Hidden Connection That Changed Number Theory
Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media
Above left, from the cover of the Election Integrity Partnership’s 2020 election report. It’s not the full story: Previously undisclosed Stanford documents now show in detail how the federal-private alliance flagged social media posts for censorship. By Ben Weingarten, RealClearInvestigationsNovember 6, 2023 In the runup to the 2020 election, cybersecurity experts at the Department of… Continue reading Documents Shed New Light on Feds’ Collusion with Private Actors to Police Speech on Social Media