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What your eyes could reveal about your heart health

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek mathematician Euclid began his treatise Optics with an assumption that now sounds peculiar: visual rays travelled out from the eye towards the objects we see.

The Conversation · Oct 2

Euclidean Zoning: How Our 'Arbitrary and Oppressive' City Planning Scheme Got Its Name

Is it named after the father of geometry or a Cleveland suburb? Both.

Reason · Aug 17

Quote of the day by the man who revolutionized probability theory, Blaise Pascal: "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Most influential and inspiring life lessons on love, wisdom, faith, and human nature

The quote of the day by Blaise Pascal reminds us that human life is rarely governed by pure logic. His famous words state that the heart has its reasons of which reason knows absolutely nothing. This profound insight explores the eternal conflict between human emotion and the analytical mind.

The Economic Times · Jun 29

'The beauty of symbolic equations is that it's much easier to … see a problem at a glance': How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

"Even the +, −, =, and × signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"

LiveScience · Jun 30, 2024

‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’

Unearthed notes owned by the renowned philosopher Jeremy Bentham reveal the roots of his influential ethics

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024

Starless And Forever Alone: More 'Rogue' Planets Discovered

The Euclid space telescope has discovered seven more rogue planets, shining a light on the dark and lonely worlds floating freely through the universe untethered to any star.

International Business Times · May 29, 2024

Scientists pick their favorite Euclid 'dark universe' telescope images: 'The best is still to come'

The European Space Agency has now released ten images from its dark universe detective spacecraft, Euclid. We asked scientists from various fields to pick their favorite Euclid image thus far.

Space · May 28, 2024

Euclid Space Telescope Unveils New Images Of The Cosmos

A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed from Europe's Euclid space telescope on Thursday.

International Business Times · May 23, 2024

Matt Yglesias on the Takings Clause and Curbing Exclusionary Zoning

Prominent political commentator and zoning reform advocate comments on my work on this topic (with Joshua Braver).

Reason · Mar 14, 2024

What is the largest known prime number?

There are infinitely many prime numbers, but the biggest one we know of goes by the name M82589933 and contains more than 24 million digits.

LiveScience · Nov 23, 2023