We've Been Undercounting the Insects. There May Be Three Times as Many Species as We Knew

The generally accepted figure for the number of insect species on the planet is about six million. Or at least that was the ...
Tech Times

Tesla Full Self-Driving Safety Statistics Called Misleading as EU-Wide Vote Looms

Tesla Full Self-Driving safety statistics have been called misleading marketing by 10 of 11 independent researchers, as ...
Business.Scoop

Lies, Damn Lies And Statistics: Accusations Fly In Energy Trust Election Stoush

Two lead horses vying for a WEL Energy Trust election win are at loggerheads over statistical claims in electioneering bumpf.
Irish Boxing

Why mathematical calculations always ensure a profit for casinos

Behind the glitz of the casino signs and the mesmerising reels lies a strict discipline — the theory of random ...
IEEE

An Efficient Calculation Method for the Near Field Distributions of Phased Array During Beam-Scanning Status

Abstract: Beam-scanning status of the phased array leads to variations in the near-field distributions, and it is costly to carry out exhaustive calculations through full-wave simulation or actual ...
PBS

Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. President Donald Trump has regularly said that drug-price discounts on his watch are greater than 100%, which isn't mathematically possible. Now his ...
Scientific American

Math Puzzle: Tricky calculation

Using only the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the mathematical operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, can you arrive at the value 456? You ...
STAT

The EPA just erased a century of public health progress

Williams is a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University School of Medicine and former dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. What is the value of a human ...
The New York Times

She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It’s a Sensation.

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders. Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.Credit...Giulia Mangione for The ...
The New Yorker

Solvej Balle’s Novels Rewire the Time Loop

Before Tara Selter, the protagonist of “On the Calculation of Volume,” a series by the Danish author Solvej Balle, gets trapped in a time loop, she is one half of a unit called T. & T. Selter. It’s a ...
FactCheck.org

Few Mass Shooters Have Been Transgender

Q: Have many of the mass shooters been transgender? A: The number of transgender mass shooters in the U.S. varies depending on how “mass shooting” is defined, but is relatively small. The Gun Violence ...
eng.belta

Belarusian statistics agency to improve GDP calculation methods

MINSK, 22 August (BelTA) – Belarus’ National Statistical Committee (Belstat) is to improve its GDP calculation methods, Chairwoman of the National Statistical Committee Inna Medvedeva told BelTA. A ...