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You're chopping onions wrong! Mathematicians reveal the best way to dice the vegetable - and...

Whether you're a pro chef or a cookery novice, chopping an onion is one of the first things you learn to do in the kitchen. But, according to mathematicians, you may have been chopping onions wrong ...

This is the biggest sofa you can fit around a corner, according to a mathematician

The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a ...
Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

Development agreement between city and county set to vacate streets in Triangle Block area

Wisconsin Rapids and Wood County officials agreed to redevelop the Triangle Block area. The county will pay $500,000 for some of the work and handle demolition and environmental remediation. The ...
BBC

Calculating the area of a triangle

To calculate the area of a rectangle you multiply the length by the width. A right-angled triangle is like half a rectangle. So to calculate the area of a triangle, you can work out the area of the ...
Iowa Public Radio

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.
WFMZ-TV

Neighbor describes hearing gunshots, Allentown police find evidence of shooting at local bar

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Allentown police officers responded to a report of shots fired early Sunday, discovering one injured person and evidence of a shooting. According to an Allentown Police press release, ...
Investopedia

How to Calculate Internal Rate of Return (IRR) in Excel and Google Sheets

Caroline Banton has 6+ years of experience as a writer of business and finance articles. She also writes biographies for Story Terrace. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of ...
Daily Mail

Britain's 'baby deserts' REVEALED… as birth rates slump to lowest level ever - find out if you live in an area where having children is becoming rare

Britain's fertility crisis was today laid bare yesterday as stark figures revealed birth rates across the country were at their lowest since records began. Alarming Office for National Statistics (ONS ...
NBC Chicago

Woman charged for using racial slur against Black child as her fundraising tops $800K

A social media video of the April incident, in which the woman admitted to using the slur, has garnered millions of views. It showed a man confronting her for using the slur toward the child. She then ...
Investopedia

Cost of Debt: What It Means and Formulas

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
WFMZ-TV

Crews find body of man who reportedly jumped from Tilghman Street Bridge into Lehigh River

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Rescue crews found the body of a 28-year-old Allentown man who jumped from the Tilghman Street Bridge. Boats, divers, and the Lehigh County Drone Team had been looking for him for ...