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"Impossible" mathematics in the real world
How can an "impossible" mathematical abstraction work in the "real" world?
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Old photo undergoes a resurrection
It would be wonderful to believe that the transformation of an old photo is just a pale precursor of a wedding and a transformation yet to come.
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What is the Erdos number?
It was a kudos marker signifying a mathematician's level of association with Erdos
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God and our DNA
How can the names of God appear hundreds of thousands of times in each human cell?
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Pain perception
We "perceive" pain depending on its level at the end of a medical procedure
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Chopin Patterns
Chopin believed his music was nothing more than complex abstract patterns. Why was it so attractive, then?
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Which north is which?
Magnetic north wanders all over the place, True North is much more reliable.
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When plants cry
Botanists have discovered that stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicks ...
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We live in a light-filled space
Our solar system is Light-filled - a miraculous place. But most of the universe is darker than dark ...
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Elijah & the Earthquake
A new angle on Elijah's encounter with earthquake, fire and still small voice.
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Easy as 1 2 3
This little number exercise will amaze you. It doesn't seem possible. Try it on your friends.
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Infinities without end
We can (more or less) get our heads around the idea of infinity - but infinities of infinities ..?
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Poison in the garden
How could something so beautiful be toxic? But it's easy to be fooled.
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God loves dust particles
We always knew the universe was larger than we were...
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Zero and cobwebs
16 divided by zero is as meaningless as comparing your web-making skills with a spider's.
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So easy - so hard
You'd think defining 'one' would be easy enough. It's so simple! Isn't it?
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Earthquake Light
No, it's not WWIII ! Scientists probe the causes of the new/old phenomenon of earthquake light
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Red Mercury
Extraordinary and contradictory rumours have circulated about this substance.
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Cannibal Stars
New Zealand claims to have the largest collection of glow-worms in the Southern Hemisphere, and the starry points seem lovely, peaceful and mystical...
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Abstractions
Mathematics and Physics are much weaker systems than they appear to be
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O to be a Lightbeam
Imagine weighing nothing so you can be everywhere at once!
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Randomness - or not?
Some quantum physicists want us to believe that the universe is entirely the result of random events
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The Liar Paradox
The Liar Paradox is a famous self-contradiction that has been studied much over the centuries.
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Half a million molecules
In Antarctica I was given water from an ice core and told, "This is water from the time of Christ." That got me thinking.
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Darkness
Is this a possible physical explanation for the three hours of darkness at the cross when Jesus was crucified?
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Quartzite - hardest and most pierced
Only a few percent of rock areas in the world are quartzite. One large area, 48 square kilometers, is at Zhangjiajie in South East China.
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Counting is an abstraction
Huh? What could be more concrete than counting a pile of – for example - dollar coins?
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The oddness of zero
The Dalai Llama says the first number is zero and has a fundamental value. Does God agree?
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Axioms as cold as death
Axioms are the foundation of mathematics but at the quantum level they can break down
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Miyake Events
These events deliver radiation doses 100x normal background levels but human DNA is remarkably resilient
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153 Fish
Ever since that number - 153 - appeared in the Bible, Christians have been unable to agree on its significance.
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#42
In the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a supercomputer spent 7.5 million years thinking about the meaning of this number.
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Careful how you count!
How, why and what do we count? Is counting necessarily a good thing and how accurate are we at it anyway?
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