Lingabites
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The mathematics that runs your life
In 1936, a young British mathematician named Alan Turing wrote a paper that most people ignored. It wasn’t about building computers; those didn’t exist yet. It was about something stranger: whether certain mathematical questions could ever be answered by following a set of mechanical steps. The paper was theoretical, abstract, obscure. But buried in it…
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Learn English with Idioms – Barking up the wrong tree
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Expanding the vocabulary: Calque
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Learn English with Idioms – Back to the grindstone
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When the sky falls
On the night of November 12, 1833, the stars began to fall. Not metaphorically. Not in some poetic sense. They actually fell, or appeared to, by the tens of thousands, streaking across the sky in every direction, so many that people stopped counting and started praying. Some thought it was the end of the world.…
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Expanding the vocabulary: Colloquial
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The mathematics of everything you can touch
Here’s a question that sounds simple but isn’t: What’s the difference between water and coins? Water flows. You can pour it, divide it infinitely, and measure it in fractions. There’s no “smallest unit” of water that matters; you can always split it further. Half a cup, a quarter cup, a molecule, an atom. Coins don’t…
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The forgotten killer
Here’s a number that should keep you awake at night: 700,000. That’s how many children die from pneumonia every year. Not in some distant historical era, but right now. In 2025. While we carry supercomputers in our pockets and send robots to Mars. For context, that’s more deaths than malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS combined. And…
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Learn English with Idioms – Ace in the hole
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The unlikely peace treaty
Here’s a question that doesn’t get asked often enough: What do nuclear physicists and subsistence farmers in Bangladesh have in common? The answer, as of November 10, 2001, is a holiday. World Science Day for Peace and Development. And if that sounds like bureaucratic window dressing, another UNESCO initiative designed to make us feel good…