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SSS 10: Mercator Vs. Peters

 

 

In 1973 Arno Peters launched an attack on most prevalent map projection in the world, a 400 year old map created by the flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator, and released his own map to replace it. It did not go exactly as he hoped.

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Music:
Road Map

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SCC 47: Frank Morgan

 

On today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen has a conversation with Frank Morgan, the Atwell Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. They speak about Soap Bubbles, the importance, and usefulness, of conducting research with students, the best way to run the bases, and how a math chat TV show will get you recognized at the grocery store. You can find out more about Frank Morgan at his website, and be sure to read his blog at the Huffington Post, as well as his personal one.

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ACMEScience News Now 3: Oleg Igoshin


Welcome to ACMEScience NEWS NOW, your source for news about science and mathematics research, as well as the researchers behind it. On episode 3 Samuel Hansen is joined by Oleg Igoshin of the Cellular System Dynamics Group at Rice University for a discussion of Myxococcus Xanthus, the waves it forms, and his research of it(Here is the full paper).

The videos cut into the interview were provided by Oleg Igoshin, the first and third are experimental images and the second from their simulation of Myxococcus Xanthus’s behavior.

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SSS Fight 9: DNA

 

On this month’s Science Sparring Society we bring you the fight over who will find, and who will be credited for finding, the double helix. With multiple teams battling to be the first over the finish line, and one team that really does not get along very well, a certain amount of conflict was to be expected. What was not, was the much later battle over who actually deserved the credit for the discovery.

 

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Music:

Come to me
White out dream
Namiippunga
distantes II 

 

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Relatively Prime Episode 2: The Score

 

There are many similarities between mathematics and music. They are their own vocabulary, their own written language, their own way of describing the world around us, but while they are similar the Venn diagram that contains mathematics and music doesn’t always seem to have a huge overlap. This episode of Relatively Prime brings you three stories from that intersection. First a story of mathematics applied to music, in a way that no musician would have thought up. Next a story of what happen when you take mathematician and musician and combine it into a single person. Finally, the story of a composer and how he has harnessed the power of numbers as a music creation tool.

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