Inexpensive, novel method to transport blood, urine samples without refrigeration developed at Washington University

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Inexpensive, novel method to transport blood, urine samples without refrigeration developed at Washington University

When a white candidate makes vague statements, voters project their own policy positions onto the candidate, increasing their support. But black candidates who make vague statements are punished for doing so by racially prejudiced voters.

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When a white candidate makes vague statements, voters project their own policy positions onto the candidate, increasing their support. But black candidates who make vague statements are punished for doing so by racially prejudiced voters.

Police shootings of unarmed black people occur more often in states with higher levels of segregation and other forms of structural racism

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Police shootings of unarmed black people occur more often in states with higher levels of segregation and other forms of structural racism

Previously Unknown "Supercolony" of more than 1,500,000 Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica.

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Previously Unknown "Supercolony" of more than 1,500,000 Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica.

A type of bacteria commonly found on human skin produces a substance that may help protect against skin cancer. Scientists say the surprise discovery regarding a strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis highlights the importance of the community microbes found on and in the body in preventing disease.

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A type of bacteria commonly found on human skin produces a substance that may help protect against skin cancer. Scientists say the surprise discovery regarding a strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis highlights the importance of the community microbes found on and in the body in preventing disease.

A single administration of CRISPR/Cas9 lipid nanoparticles achieves robust and persistent in vivo genome editing in mouse livers. Highlights the potential of this system to potentially treat human liver diseases, such as TTR amyloidosis or hepatitis B infection.

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A single administration of CRISPR/Cas9 lipid nanoparticles achieves robust and persistent in vivo genome editing in mouse livers. Highlights the potential of this system to potentially treat human liver diseases, such as TTR amyloidosis or hepatitis B infection.

I’m Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and I’m on this week's NOVA: “Prediction By The Numbers.” Ask me anything about mathematics, predicting the future, predicting the future of mathematics, data, and number theory!

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We do math in order to understand what has happened and what is happening, and one reason we want to understand those things is so we can make good guesses about what’s going to happen.

I’m Jordan Ellenberg, a math professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study number theory, algebraic geometry and topology, which basically means I study very old questions about numbers using very new methods developed in the last few decades. I’m also a writer; I’ve written articles about math for Slate, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and a bunch of other publications… plus two books. The most recent, How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, is about the ways mathematics is wrapped up with everything we do and think about, from elections to poems to religious reveries to Supreme Court decisions to baseball games.

Here are a few things I’ve written lately:

The war on gerrymandering, and how math is fighting on both sides: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/opinion/sunday/computers-gerrymandering-wisconsin.html

Are we paying too much attention to child math prodigies? https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wrong-way-to-treat-child-geniuses-1401484790

The amazing, autotuning sandpile: http://nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/the-amazing-autotuning-sandpile

I’m featured in NOVA’s latest episode, “Prediction by the Numbers,” which asks what math can and can't tell us about the future. The show is now available for streaming online. I’m here now to take questions about the math on the show, or anything else mathematical you want to talk about!

">I’m Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and I’m on this week's NOVA: “Prediction By The Numbers.” Ask me anything about mathematics, predicting the future, predicting the future of mathematics, data, and number theory!