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Topic: Mathematics

Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Kamala's Venn diagram love helps policy

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
Portrait of scientist with projected mathematical data (Getty Images/Monty Rakusen)

Is math objectively real?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Student sitting in class (Getty Images/lisapics)

When perfect math meets a broken world

Daniel Rockmore
Rope Tied To A Boat (Getty Images/Mike Bchel/EyeEm)

The tangled physics of knots

Margaux Lopez - Massive Science
Ben Domenech and John McWhorter on the April 23, 2021 broadcast (FOX News)

Fox guest blasts anti-racist math course

Brett Bachman
Math formulas are written on the school board (Getty Images)

Is it time to kill calculus?

Daniel Rockmore
Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik's Cube (Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Ernő Rubik says "play" makes you wise

Matthew Rozsa
Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation
Mathematics (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-195160p1.html'>Binkski</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

How mathematics can save your life

Dan Falk - Undark

On gender, visibility, and Wikipedia

Kirsten Menger-Anderson - Undark
An Amazon.com employee at their Fernley, Nev., warehouse. (AP/Scott Sady)

Cory Booker; Bernie Sanders; Elizabeth Warren; Kirsten Gillibrand; Kamala Harris (AP/Getty)

Democrats: Selecting a candidate is hard

Alexander Strang, Peter Thomas - The Conversation
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Can mathematicians fix gerrymandering?

Manil Suri, Karen Saxe - The Conversation
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Decoding "the first Twitter president"

Chauncey DeVega
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When did humans first learn to count?

Peter Schumer - The Conversation
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Cryptocurrency and our STEM obsession

Keith A. Spencer
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The fascination over prime numbers

Martin H. Weissman - The Conversation
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The math behind the perfect free throw

Larry M. Silverberg - The Conversation
(Reuters)

What exactly does "instantaneous" mean?

Kevin Knudson - The Conversation
Martin Shkreli (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Hear the Wu-Tang's Shkreli diss track

Jennie Neufeld
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Tackling sexism in STEM

Amanda Marcotte

The math of gathering

Gary Chartrand, Arthur Benjamin, Ping Zhang - The Conversation
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SCOTUS takes gerrymandering

Aviva Rutkin - The Conversation
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The graphing calculator's fall

Frederick Peck, David Erickson - The Conversation
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