"The h-ll it is!" cries Amber at Wisdom Quarterly. But Danica McKellar (aka Winnie Cooper from "The Wonder Years") insists it's true. Kiss My Math! is the title of her book on the subject. Girly or gory, math is here to stay. Boys in general don't have the aversion girls do, and this leads to consequences for women. Danica should know. She graduated from UCLA as a math major, wrote to popularize it, published research on the subject, had a mathematical theorem named in her honor, and spoke to math majors at their graduation.
- Classic East/West reading: The Tao of Physics
Light bends Matter, surprising scientists
Clara Moskowitz (LiveScience.com)
Light can twist matter, according to a new study that observed ribbons of nanoparticles twisting in response to light. Scientists knew matter can cause light to bend; prisms and glasses prove this easily enough. But the reverse phenomenon?
