Posted on Sep 1, 2013 | Comments Off on LaTeX in the Cloud – Math Goes Science 2.0
William Stein, an associate professor of mathematics at University of Washington, has taken his advocacy of free open-source mathematics software to the next level. Stein is the director of the SAGE Project and this new web-based LaTeX editor is client-side CoffeeScript, HTML, and CSS. It's free, it's unlimited! Check it out at the SageMath...
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Posted on Sep 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Weekend Science: Learn To Echolocate Like A Bat
Okay Daredevil, this will take some time and some work, but so does playing a guitar - a group of biologists have determined that humans can learn to echolocate the way bats do.It's well known that blind people develop keener hearing and they even learn to help navigate using echoes of sounds, but that ability to determine locations spatially is suppressed by the 'precedence effect' - which...
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