Commentary: Numbers Are Male, Said Pythagoras, and the Idea Persists
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Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
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It is obvious that the entire world should go metric, it is a superior system to archaic and arbitrary measurement systems. Eventually of course, the world will also adopt a uniform currency, motivated purely by cost savings. We see this already beginning in the world with the creation of the Euro, and the coalescing of regional economic units, such as NAFTA and ASEAN, that will someday adopt their own uniform currencies.  And the world is also on the same calendar, mostly, motivated by synchronization of business work. But unlike the metric system, the Gregorian Calendar is a hodge podge of historical and whimsical adjustments. Days of the week don't correlate with months, or years, and I still need to look up how many days there are in a given month now and then. You need to be an autistic savant to tell what day of the week a given month and year falls on. That's nonsense. The year can be divided in a lot simpler way than the anachronistic monstrosity that is the bastardized Roman Calendar.
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The president of Harvard University prompted criticism for suggesting that innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
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When you look at gender in virtual worlds, how do you leave your biases behind? For some researchers, you don't. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Petersburg Times. The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1042 3886&fsrc=RSS Looking for the right man SIR â My husband and I enjoyed your article on spousal selection and its finding that women have better choices the higher the ratio of males to females (âA buyers' marketâ, December 15th). But there may be limits to this. We travelled to Alaska ten years ago and read several [...].
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A small group of thinking men and women convened at Rutgers University last month to consider how order theory &#151; a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships &#151; could be applied to the war on terror.
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Thanks to moronic inventors, it's now possible to calculate a cosine even if you think "cosine" is a brand of nasal decongestant. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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A formula for Web schemes: a lot of mathematicians, a lax legal system and Western targets.
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NEW YORK  - While neither men nor women may  be the more intelligent sex, their brains may take different  paths to reach the same intellectual level, according to one  team of researchers.
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The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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Men who participate in longer and more intense physical activity as they age will maintain more of their memory and thinking abilities, compared with men who don&#39;t, according to new research.
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Men who park a hot computer on their laps for hours every day may be reducing their chances of becoming fathers. A pilot study of 29 men shows that the combination of the legs-together posture required to
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A study connecting birth order with differences in intelligence reminds us that the fight for self-definition starts much earlier than freshman year.
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If you are wondering why there are 2 extra 'y's in the title "Heyy Babyy", it's due to the numerological calculations   done by numerologist Niraj Mancchanda upon consultation by Sajid Nadiadwala
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In recent years, scientists have discovered that some diseases affect women and men differently, and that treatments for the same disease should perhaps vary by sex.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]