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High doses of vitamin E may hasten death
STUDY SHOWS HIGH-DOSE VITAMIN E SUPPLEMENTS MAY INCREASE RISK OF DYING This was published in two highly-respected peer-reviewed journals, made national news, and led to much public discussion. (i.e. News bulletins on all stations warning, “Stop taking vitamin E as a major study shows that it increases the incidence of heart disease, cancer, and many […]
It All Started With Marconi
In his delightful memoir, Love & Math [1], mathematician Edward Frenkel shares the following “anecdote” about wireless telegraphy: At the beginning of the 20th century, someone asks a physicist at a party: can you explain how it works? The physicist replies that it’s very simple. First, you have to understand how the ordinary, wired, telegraph works; imagine […]
17 Equations That Changed the World
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart FRS CMath FIMA, published by Basic Books. In the book Stewart traced a history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem to the equation that transformed the twenty-first-century financial market, the Black–Scholes model. Seventeen equations are described in […]
Do You Want to Become an Impressive IEEE Author?
Suppose you want to publish something that is as simple as1 + 1 = 2. This is not very impressive. If you want your article to be accepted by IEEE reviewers, you have to be more abstract: http://fatiherden.apps-1and1.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IEEE_Joke.pdf
Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
Here are the stories behind the best gadgets of the past 50 years We’re all gadget hounds now. In developed countries, we wake up to our smartphones, we consult them obsessively all day, and then fall asleep with them by our side. Between dawn and dusk, we glance at our smartwatches, look at monitors and […]
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