Archive for the ‘Travel & Culture’ Category

Friday math movie: The Rice Show

5 August 2011

The Rice Show - representing populations using riceUsing the scale of one grain of rice to one person, The Rice Show represents population statistics in a way you’ve never seen before.

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Friday math movie: The surprising math of cities and corporations

29 July 2011

Math of CitiesThis video discusses some of the reasons – and solutions – for global warming. It’s all about scaling.

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Friday math movie: Bach Crab Canon

3 June 2011

Bach's Crab CanonHere’s a very neat way to illustrate Bach’s Crab Canon – using a Mobius strip.

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Friday math movie: Artfully visualizing our humanity

27 May 2011

Artfully visualizing our humanityThis video is a great treatment of math for multiple intelligences – visual, musical and interpersonal.

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Friday math movie: World Metrology Day 2011

20 May 2011

metrologyThis video commemorates World Metrology Day, 20th May. Go metric and make your lives simpler!

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Human error causes problems in drink-driving cases

20 April 2011

Intoxilyzer Here’s a case where accuracy was compromised and people suffered because of it.

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Math in your feet

18 April 2011

Math in your feetHere’s a way to learn math – through your feet!

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New measure of obesity – body adiposity index (BAI)

9 March 2011

measure-body-fatResearchers have suggested a new way to determine body fat – the BAI. What is the math behind it?

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Friday math movie: pentatonic scale

18 February 2011

dissonant soundsThe pentatonic scale is popular across all cultures. Some math is involved here!

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More funny GraphJam graphs

15 February 2011

More funny graphs from graphjamHere are some more funny graphs courtesy of GraphJam.

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