Math
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Your head’s battery
Fluids in the inner ear can actually power an electronic device, such as an implant.
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Hitting streaks spread success
For baseball players who want to increase their batting success, a new study offers this tip: Get on a team with a slugger.
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Cool Jobs: Math as entertainment
At DreamWorks Animation (and previously at another company called Digital Domain) Nafees Bin Zafar creates software used to make the special effects in motion pictures — and sometimes cartoons — look as realistic as possible.
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Shuffling shenanigans
A magician-turned-mathematician figures out how many times to shuffle a deck of cards before playing Old Maid
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Troubles with Hubble
Just before a planned repair mission, the space telescope went quiet.
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Math and our number sense
Not all math skills are learned in the classroom. Some of them come naturally.
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Play for Science
Computer scientists are developing programs to win popular games. In the process, they are developing solutions for other, more serious, puzzles.
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Math Naturals
Kindergartners can solve relatively complex addition and subtraction problems if allowed to use their intuitive grasp of approximate quantities.
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