News tagged with sixty symbols
'Sixty Symbols' -- unravelling the secret language of science
Apr 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It is the most famous scientific equation in history, framed by Einstein more than a century ago. But what does e=mc˛ actually stand for? And how does it explain the relationship between energy, mass and ...
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Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric ...
Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
UC design research points the way so you won't get lost at the hospital
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Help is on the way for anyone who has ever gotten lost at a hospital or other health-care setting.
The symbolic monkey? Token-mediated economic choices in tufted capuchins
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artefacts. The mental representation of symbols – objects that arbitrarily represent other objects – ultimately affords the ...
Concrete examples don't help students learn math, study finds
Apr 24, 2008 |
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A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using “real-world,” concrete examples. Researchers led by Jennifer Kaminski, researcher scientist at Ohio State University’s ...
'DTXTR' translates teen text into English
May 27, 2009 |
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Wot r ur kids txting? If you're wondering -- or 1dering -- there's a new online translation tool that helps decipher the code.
Researcher finds optimal fix-free codes
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 50 years after David Huffman developed Huffman coding, an entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression in computer science and information theory, an electrical ...
Most Americans dislike behavioral advertising: survey
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Privacy advocates have long criticized behavioral advertising and a new survey suggests that contrary to the claims of marketers, most Americans don't like it either.
Cracking the brain's numerical code
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 24, 2009 |
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By carefully observing and analyzing the pattern of activity in the brain, researchers have found that they can tell what number a person has just seen. They can similarly tell how many dots a person has been presented with, ...
Would you describe yourself as old?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How old is "old"? Researchers at the University of St Andrews are investigating people's perceptions of when an individual should be called old.
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