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Marin hike: Heading into the heart of ‘Big Empty’

East Bay Times 03 Sep 2024
It is close in distance, but far away from our usual experience ... • The hike ... Before we turn, notice the serpentine-loving Sargent’s cypress trees nearby, with seed cones that resemble a three-dimensional geometry exam problem that you couldn’t solve.
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New 35x stiffer push-puppet-inspired material for self-deployable space robots

Interesting Engineering 13 Aug 2024
As per UCLA, they thread either motor-driven (robotics) or self-actuating cords (like the toy) through the interlocking cone-tipped beads ... A feat of geometry even, the design hinges upon the shape of the cones and the friction between them ... .
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Euclid and the Birth of Geometry

Ancient Origins 23 Mar 2024
It’s no secret that many of us are not too fond of mathematics and geometry, and that it is often too complex ... Euclid Laid the Foundations of Modern Geometry ... Book XI focuses on solid geometry, including the properties of cones, cylinders, and spheres.
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Richmond: 16th Annual Carytown Cone Parade, Social Butterfly shares story, gallery, video

Progress Index 29 Jan 2024
Richmond Carytown Cone Parade 2024 ... 'Cones with creative minds gather to draw in prosperity and blessings for the new year' ... Carytown Cone Parade ... In sacred geometry, cones are a powerful symbol of bringing forth and focusing energy," Lasky said.
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A new name for Colorado's Crestone Peak?

Colorado Politics 03 Nov 2023
For more than 100 years, federal officials have held onto the name of Kit Carson to denote one of Colorado's fourteeners in Saguache County ... And, since that year, the U.S ... It's a geometry term that refers to a flat-topped cone or pyramid ... The U.S ... ....
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Thabit ibn Qurra: The legendary 9th-century Muslim polymath

The New Arab 26 Oct 2023
Bahman ibn Qurra significantly advanced the third stage of mathematics by means of his publication of original works in disciplines including geometry, algebra, arithmetic (number theory), geometry, cone sections, and trigonometry.
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How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Rails

The New Republic 12 Oct 2023
How many spheres of identical size will fit inside of a large cylinder with cones at either end? But the interviewers did not provide the diameter of the ball, or the length and radius of the fuselage.
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BreakPoint: The life, faith and brilliance of Blaise Pascal

Chatanooga Times Free Press 16 Sep 2023
At 16, he produced an essay on the geometry of cones so impressive that René Descartes initially refused to believe it could possibly be attributed to a ...
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Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around black hole

Beijing News 06 Nov 2022
Combining the IXPE data with concurrent observations from NASA's NICER and NuSTAR X-ray observatories in May and June 2022 allowed the authors to constrain the geometry -- i.e., shape and location -- of the plasma.
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Polarized X-rays reveal the shape and orientation of extremely hot matter around the black hole

Technology Org 06 Nov 2022
Combining the IXPE data with concurrent observations from NASA’s and X-ray observatories in May and June 2022 allowed the authors to constrain the plasma’s geometry — i.e., shape and location —.
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X-rays reveal details about the matter around the black hole

The Cleveland American 04 Nov 2022
Combining IXPE data with simultaneous observations from NASA’s NICER and NuSTAR X-ray Observatory in May and June 2022 allowed the authors to narrow down the scope of the plasma geometry, that is, the shape and position of the plasma.
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MB Quart Q Speakers Set the Bar for Listening

Mobile Electronics 07 Oct 2022
This means that midbass frequencies remain very musical without the distortions that can be caused by the cone flexing and with the curvilinear design the geometry is specifically engineered for the best midbass response and off-axis performance.
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Newly discovered magnetic interactions could lead to novel ways to manipulate electron flow

Phys Dot Org 18 Aug 2022
Scientists from the U.S ... The weave produces a pattern of hexagons surrounded by triangles and vice-versa ... The band structure is strongly dependent on the geometry of the atomic lattice, and sometimes bands may display special shapes such as cones ... S. X.
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The sixth sense: How animals use the Earth's magnetic field for orientation

Phys Dot Org 14 Jul 2022
But it emerged that all three proteins are produced in the double cones—a specific type of sensory cells located in the retina ... Dedek believes the peculiar geometry of the double cones makes them particularly suited to detecting the magnetic field.

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