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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof

For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...

A Once-in-a-Century Proof: The Kakeya Conjecture

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...
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The Theorem That Should Be Simple But Defies Every Mind on Earth

It’s the theorem every mathematician believes in — yet no one can prove it. For decades, the brightest minds have tried and ...
Nature

Human Testing, the Eugenics Movement, and IRBs

The eugenics movement of the early 1900s ultimately went horribly wrong despite its noble aims. What can we learn from this movement's outcomes in order to avoid the repetition of these mistakes?
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We Can Use Predistribution to Fight Income Inequality

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” ...