LittleAbout - (www.littleabout.com).
Mathematical models could help track terrorists
(Dec 13, 2009) - News and gossip these days spread like wildfire, thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs). But one researcher believes that a right mathematical model could help spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet.

24-7 pressrelease - (www.24-7pressrelease.com).
Can "Time Channels Mathematics" Neutralize Forex Risk?
(Dec 13, 2009) - The Moroccan Market wizard, El Mostafa Belkhayate, winner of the 2009 Gold Trophy of Technical Analysis, believes so, and he is about to launch a Technological revolution in Forex.

Using a black-box program that is logged 24 hours directly into the interbank exchange, the Belkhayate Mathex system is an automatic currency trading platform based solely on the Mathematics and dynamics of Time.

PHYSORG - (www.physorg.com).
Scientist creates formula for perfect parking
(Dec 11, 2009) - Forget roasting a textbook turkey or perfect present-wrapping this month. The real test of Britons' mettle will come as we try to park in tight spots on busy roads, with 35 million of us heading to the shops over the next few weeks. Help, however, is at hand, as Professor Simon Blackburn, from Royal Holloway, University of London, has collaborated with Vauxhall Motors to create a mathematical formula to show motorists how to park perfectly.

IStockanalyst - (www.istockanalyst.com).
Beating The Mogul Game ‐ An Exercise in Applied Mathematics
(Dec 10, 2009) - I have often wondered about how to rank sports teams. This goes way back to when I was 10 years old, when I ran across a magazine at summer camp that purported to do this for NFL football. And so I wondered for many years, looking at similar problems and wondering how a ranking of teams could be generated from a win-loss history. I finally came to a conclusion when I played the Mogul Game.

The New York Times (www.nytimes.com) - The Way We Live Now - Mammogram Math
(Dec 10, 2009) - In his inaugural address, Barack Obama promised to restore science to its "rightful place." This has partly occurred, as evidenced by this month's release of 13 new human embryonic stem-cell lines. The recent brouhaha over the guidelines put forth by the government task force on breast-cancer screening, however, illustrates how tricky it can be to deliver on this promise. One big reason is that people may not like or even understand what scientists say, especially when what they say is complex, counterintuitive or ambiguous.

The National (www.thenational.com) - Mathematics can predict Iran's nuclear strategy, says scientist
(Nov 12, 2009) - As Iran and the international community try to negotiate an agreement on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, analysts are busy examining speeches and news reports and scouring documents in their efforts to predict the outcome.
But according to one New York University political scientist, it can be predicted by simple mathematics.

Examiner.com (www.examiner.com) - Somer Thompson's murder: A real-life 'Numb3rs' case?
(Nov 5, 2009) - Could Dr. Kim Rossmo's ground-breaking geographic profiles be instrumental in locating Somer Thompson's killer? The pilot episode of hit TV show,"Numb3rs" was based on Rossmo's accomplishments. A former Canadian constable who gumshoed around Vancouver's high-crime, "downtown eastside" by night, while acquring a forensics-related mathematics Ph.D by day, Rossmo has consulted in high-profile cases, including the Zodiac and DC Sniper serial murders.

The Daily Northwestern (www.dailynorthwestern.com) - Applied mathematics expert shows how math can be applied to epidemic outbreaks
(Nov 3, 2009) - ... at a presentation Monday called "Improving Prediction of Random Epidemic Outbreaks" at the Technological Institute, Dr. Eric Forgoston discussed how applied mathematics can track the spread of an epidemic.

Finance & Markets Monitor (www.rgemonitor.com) - RE: Wall Street Journal: The Cruel Basic Mathematics of Losses
(Nov 2, 2009) - An odd article in the today's WSJ laments The Cruel Math of Big Losses.

What a terrible misonomer: This article should have been called "The Basic Mathematics of the Stock Market."
Not understanding the simple percentages of losses and gains is a goodly part of the reason so many investors buy into the myth of Buy & Hold.
Also see Atlanta Journal Constitution: A math lesson for your 401(k)

New York Times - Martin Gardner: For Decades, Puzzling People With Mathematics
(Oct 19, 2009) - [Martin Gardner's 95th birthday was October 21, 2009.]
"Many have tried to emulate him; no one has succeeded," says Ronald Graham, a mathematician at the University of California, San Diego. "Martin has turned thousands of children into mathematicians, and thousands of mathematicians into children."

Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au) - Give Dylan Nobel Prize - for maths
(Oct 19, 2009) - Give Bob the Nobel Prize for Mathematics - and not for his aspirations, his desire to one day solve The Riemann Hypothesis, which would enable us to predict the occurrence of prime numbers (you know, the ones that can't be divided, except by 1 and themselves). No, give Bob the prize because of his mathematical theory of music.

stevespangler.com - Balloon Boy Helium Physics
(Oct 17, 2009) - How Much Helium Would It Take to Lift Falcon?

University of Michigan News Service (www.ns.umich.edu) - U-M discovery about biological clocks overturns long-held theory
(Oct 8, 2009) - University of Michigan mathematicians and their British colleagues say they have identified the signal that the brain sends to the rest of the body to control biological rhythms, a finding that overturns a long-held theory about our internal clock.

Live Science (www.livescience.com)- The Mathematics of Hitting Streaks
(May 14, 2009) - The 30-game hitting streak of Washington Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman came to an end Wednesday, after a hitless game against the San Francisco Giants. He is, however, one of only 21 players have hit in 30 straight games in the past 50 years.
Trent McCotter, a baseball historian, published an article in the 2008 Baseball Research Journal explaining that considerably more hitting streaks have actually occurred than statistical models predict. That simple finding is raising questions about both baseball and the field of statistics.

Examiner.com - Mathematics and spirituality
(Feb 26, 2009) - Most people today see mathematics as being the furthest thing away from spirituality, but this has not always been the case. In the past mathematics was intimately linked with spirituality and mysticism.

Science News - Mathematician answers Supreme Court plea
(Feb 25, 2009) - New, fair method for dividing states into congressional districts could reduce political squabbles.

AAP The Mathematics of Sex and Courtship
(Jan 28, 2009) - How many mathematicians does it take to explain why you shouldn't sleep with a man on your first date?

Science News: Brain reorganizes to make room for math
(Nov 24, 2008) ---Between childhood and adulthood, neural map of the brain rearranges to conceptualize arithmetic. It takes years for children to master the ins and outs of arithmetic. New research indicates that this learning process triggers a large-scale reorganization of brain processes involved in understanding written symbols for various quantities.

Edmonton Journal (Canada) -- WHY PLUS/MINUS IS A ROTTEN, USELESS, MISLEADING AND IRRELEVANT STAT FOR NHL PLAYERS
(Nov 21, 2008) -- The NHL's official plus/minus stat is one of the most discussed individual stats in hockey, but it's also one of the most flawed, misleading and misunderstood.

Telegraph (UK) -- View From The Lab: The mathematics behind US election
(Nov 4, 2008) -- Whatever the outcome of the US election, it certainly won't be fair, says Steve Jones.

Science News: Mathematician Cracks Mystery Beatles Chord
ScienceDaily (Oct 31, 2008) -- It's the most famous chord in rock 'n' roll, an instantly recognizable twang rolling through the open strings on George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker. It evokes a Pavlovian response from music fans as they sing along to the refrain that follows: It's been a hard day's night And I've been working like a dog

Science News: Rating the rankings
(Oct 3, 2008) -- The U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities are largely arbitrary, according to a new mathematical analysis.

AFP- Innate 'number sense' boosts math skills: study.
(Sep 7, 2008) -- PARIS (AFP) Humans have an inborn, intuitive grasp of numbers that varies sharply from one person to the next and is closely linked to advanced math skills, according to a study released Sunday.
Also see Washington Post story

Business Week: Book Excerpt: The The Numerati by Stephen Baker
(Aug 28, 2008) -- By building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management

NPR.org - Math Problem: Democratic Conventions Logistics
(Aug 27, 2008) -- A math class at the University of Colorado examined some of the issues facing organizers of the Democratic National Convention. The students came up with several variables that appear to have been incorporated into the quantitative and qualitative distribution of thousands of volunteers.

Livescience (www.livescience.com) - Worms Do Calculus to Find Food
(Jul 23, 2008) - Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a worm's brain does this: It performs calculus.
[See also: Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness at University of Oregon.]

Live Science (www.livescience.com) - Music Reduced to Beautiful Math
(May 7, 2008) - It's hard for anyone to say what music looks like, but a new mathematical approach sees classical music as cone-shaped and jazz as pyramid-like.

Live Science (www.livescience.com) - Amazing Aztecs Were Math Whizzes Too
(Apr 3, 2008) - Long known for their cool circular calendars and practice of human sacrifice, Aztecs were also math whizzes.
Aztecs used hand, heart and arrow symbols to represent fractional distances when calculating areas of land, scientists have discovered. The researchers pored over Aztec agricultural manuscripts trying to understand how the indigenous people arrived at area calculations. Only when they factored in the pictorial glyphs did the figures make sense.

Live Science (www.livescience.com) - Using Abstract Math to Treat Cancer
(Feb 22, 2008) - Dr. Roman Polyak is a fortunate man. In mathematics, his area of research, few get to see their discoveries translated into actual applications during their lifetime.
Yet more than two decades after he first developed his theory and published it, Polyak watched a conference presentation that showed how his mathematics had translated into a device to help treat cancer.