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( American Friends of Tel Aviv University ) Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob of Tel Aviv University has outlined how decisions made by communities of bacteria trump game theory. "When human beings make a decision," he says, "they think they're being rational." Bacteria, he explains, are both simpler and more sophisticated -- they can more effectively control the superfluous noise around decision making ...
2010-10-12 10:33:50
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( American Mathematical Society ) Three articles in the November 2010issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society examine ways in which mathematics can contribute to understanding environmental andecological issues.
2010-10-12 11:17:04
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though he conceded that his PhD in mathematics helps him better understand the new scientific concepts he tackles in his books. “I’ve sort of shifted my career to explaining science to people instead of working in a classroom and doing research ...
2010-10-12 03:39:00
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Urban Gaming Club President Ryan Bisbey (senior-chemistry and mathematics) said he looks forward to this event every semester. “It’s the one game I can’t miss. The adrenaline rush makes it all worth it for me,” Bisbey said. The game begins with one ...
2010-10-12 04:08:00
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the ledger shows some unpleasant mathematics." Indeed, as National Family Farm Coalition and Grassroots International stated in an open letter to Congress in 2008, "We are just one drought away from possibly seeing $10/bushel corn or $20/bushel wheat with ...
2010-10-12 04:29:00
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which counts as the student’s forth year of mathematics. “It works out to about an hour a week that we have to work on the store,” Wilson said. The students, he said, have done a great job and are excited about the opportunities that will come with ...
2010-10-12 07:28:00
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The position is located within the School of Education, one of four Schools in the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University. The School currently comprises approximately 80 FTE staff and is a leading provider of primary and secondary teacher education,
2010-10-12 07:00:00
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Leading biologists are at each other's throats over a quirk of evolution, writes Roger Highfield.
2010-10-12 04:10:39
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( NOAA Headquarters ) The wonders of coral reefs and life thriving below the sea will be broadcast live on the Web to classrooms and communities nationwide during a NOAA science and education mission at Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only undersea research station.
2010-10-12 07:05:00
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What was the universe like before the big bang? A big Swiss cheese fondue, according to one scientist on Horizon Where did everything come from? How did it all begin, the universe and everything? Easy. There was a big bang, 13.7bn years ago, since when the universe has been expanding, right? Well, that used to be correct. But now a bunch of pointy heads are beginning to question this, and ...
2010-10-12 04:15:06
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Starving Penn State zombies are craving humans for the next two weeks — in a make-believe game, of course. The Urban Gaming Club began a game of Humans vs. Zombies at 8 a.m. Monday that will continue — 24 hours a day — until Saturday, Oct. 23.
2010-10-12 04:26:03
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Follow Israel news on and . Prof. Yisrael Aumann, Nobel Laureate and noted American-Israeli mathematician and game theorist, spoke at the beginning of the week during activities to mark the beginning of the academic year at Bar Ilan University.
2010-10-12 01:24:13
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The application deadline for the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy is October 31, leaving only a few weeks for elementary school teachers to apply for the all-expenses-paid professional development opportunity.
2010-10-12 07:00:00
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Numerologists get a far better press than they deserve, but Matt Parker finds he has an unexpected empathy with them I like patterns. I only ever buy palindromic values of petrol because numbers such as £34.43 not only make me smile but are easy to spot on a bank statement. Humans have an innate love of patterns and our ability to exploit them has led to modern civilisation. People enjoy sudoku ...
2010-10-12 04:13:16
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Hairdressers of the Ancien Régime did a good sideline as maths checkers Some mathematicians pay attention to hairdressers more than other mathematicians do. Two modern scholars focused their attention very differently when they wrote about history's most famous numerico-tonsorial collaboration. In 1784, mathematicians joined forces with hairdressers on a scale probably never attempted before or ...
2010-10-12 04:59:04
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