For Perfectly Wrapped Gifts Every Time, Geometry Says Use the Diagonal Hack—Here’s How

Again, the secret is how you’re wrapping all the way around the item. A diamond orientation means you’re folding over right ...
Smithsonian Magazine

From Crushed Sugar Cubes to Exploded Ceramics, This Universal Law Predicts How Most Objects Will Shatter

A new equation calculates how many fragments of each size will be produced when an object breaks. The principle could help ...

How does the World Cup draw 2026 work? Format, rules and more

The 2026 World Cup draw is here, with Friday's FIFA event revealing which groups will be playing in next year's soccer ...
EdSource

Community colleges offer new classes to prepare students for calculus, comply with controversial law

A new law is changing course pathways for thousands of community college students in science and math majors. Long sequences ...
IEEE

Non-Iterative Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Market Clearing in Multi-Microgrid Systems via Model Substitution and Network Reduction

Abstract: In the existing literature, P2P energy trading market can be cleared in a centralized, distributed or decentralized manner. The decentralized market structure is in line with the energy ...
Wall Street Journal

A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...
Education Week

How to Make Every Student Feel Like a ‘Math Person’

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...
The Atlantic

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across ...
Education Week

High-Achieving Black and Latino Students Are Often Shut Out of Algebra 1

Black and Latino students are much less likely to have early access to Algebra 1 than their white and Asian peers—even when they’re in the same schools, and have similarly high math scores, according ...
Paris

Substitution - Bring Her Back: horror film on VOD and in theaters

Substitution - Bring Her Back, a horror thriller by Michael and Danny Philippou, will be released in theaters on July 30, 2025, and will be available on VOD in France at the end of November. Directed ...
The Daily Signal

Thanks to the Woke Math Movement, Some Freshmen at UCSD Can’t Do Grade-Level Math

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...
BBC

Is Bellingham Tuchel's best player or problem to solve?

Jude Bellingham has been one of England's key players since he made his debut as a 17-year-old, racking up 46 caps and scoring at both the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024. But things have soured for the ...