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  News.com.au - ADELAIDE University could drop specialist mathematics as an entry condition for engineering, computer science and mathematics courses. It says it is reviewing its maths requirements as part of an effort to address the skills shortage and to ensure ...
  2007-10-04 11:28:00

• Cake, math books make for a unique 100th birthday celebration (Daily Orange)

  In the midst of constant campus construction, some buildings quietly stand the test of time. The Carnegie Library celebrated its 100th anniversary Thursday during a two-hour birthday party featuring speakers, cake, an array of rare mathematics books and historic photographs on display and discussion on the future of the library.
  2007-10-04 10:50:46

• Gay bomb, rodents on Viagra win Ig Nobel (Fox 19 Cincinnati)

  BOSTON (AP) - A study on how hamsters recover from jet lag more quickly after being given Viagra. Testing people's dining habits with a bottomless bowl of soup. Working out the mathematics of wrinkle patterns on bedsheets.
  2007-10-04 06:25:53

• Player Profile: Schreiner’s Tiffany Miller (Kerrville Daily Times)

  A sophomore from San Antonio and a mathematics major, Miller posted some interesting math in the Mountaineers’ win against Mary Hardin-Baylor — numbers that earned her the American Southwest Conference West Offensive Player of the Week.
  2007-10-04 09:48:11

• Cal Welcomes Harvard Before Davis Road Trip (The Daily Californian)

  For Cal men’s water polo coach Kirk Everist, the mathematics of water polo are a bit more complicated than the score-more-points-than-the-other-team football figuring attributed to John Madden.
  2007-10-04 11:37:30

• Sixth standard students here are reading the (NDTV)

  Schools in and around Mumbai are coming up with unconventional out of the box ways to teach dreaded subjects like history and mathematics in an attempt to lighten them up.
  2007-10-04 09:13:49

• Ig Nobel prizes a mouthful of fun (The Charlotte Observer)

  Good news for your Viagra-using hamster: On his next trip to Europe he'll bounce back from jet lag faster than his unmedicated friends. The researchers who revealed that bizarre fact earned one of 10 Ig Nobel prizes awarded Thursday night for quirky, funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements, from the mathematics of wrinkled sheets to U.S. military efforts to make a "gay bomb." The ...
  2007-10-04 06:29:38

• Paladins seek end to second-half woes (The Greenville News)

  It seems like simple mathematics. Four quarters equal a whole.
  2007-10-04 11:11:45

• Ig Nobels honor crazy science with a point (MSNBC)

  Ten Ig Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday night for quirky, funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements, from the mathematics of wrinkled sheets to U.S. military efforts to make a “gay bomb.”
  2007-10-04 06:44:41

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