Want to hear about science communication from the science editor of Christianity Today, a public radio producer, and me? Details at the end. The old saw about real estate says that the most important features are location, location, location. Mathematicians care about location too, such as the location of the prime numbers. Prime numbers, divisible only by themselves and 1, have several uses, most popularly in the encryption that guards our Internet transactions. Consequently, we are always on the lookout for new … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Prime Real Estate
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Science Corner: These Friends are Just Right
Is your Facebook network an echo chamber? Plenty of people angst over that and related questions; they worry that personalized communication and media networks keep us from being exposed to new ideas. If that's really the case, one solution would be to try to mix people up as much as possible, so that you get exposed to the widest possible range of information. It might sound intuitive, but according to this study, it might be better to arrange moderate mixing while maintaining some natural clustering. … [Read more...] about Science Corner: These Friends are Just Right