NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool.  A self-described “vaccine against misinformation.” NewsGuard Technologies In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship, Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, touted his product, NewsGuard, as… Continue reading NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

In the ‘Wild West’ of Geometry, Mathematicians Redefine the Sphere

If you’ve ever been stuck in traffic on a rainy afternoon, you’ve probably watched raindrops racing each other down the car window. When pairs of droplets collide, they merge into a new droplet, losing their separate identities. That merging is possible because the water droplets are just about spherical. When shapes are flexible — as… Continue reading In the ‘Wild West’ of Geometry, Mathematicians Redefine the Sphere

This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis

Known as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master code breaker who played a pivotal role in both World Wars. For many years, no one knew what she had done, not even her own family. Code breaking wasn’t Smith Friedman’s plan to begin with. In the mid-1910s she was a 23-year-old college… Continue reading This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis

She Decodes Quakes From Undersea Volcanoes (and Taylor Swift)

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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

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)

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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

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