Geometry

Mind-Blowing Pi Meme Called Misleading

HuffingtonPost.com | David Freeman | Posted 04.12.2013 | Science

Read More: Junk Science, Video, Math, Weird Science, Peter Alfeld, Pi Meme, Mathematicians, Mathematics, Steven Strogatz, Geometry, Pi, Science News

Pie is popular, but we love pi too -- even if that love is sometimes misguided. Consider the overwhelming response in recent days to a meme express...

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Fiber Arts Shine As Public Art

Hilary Harkness | Posted 02.16.2013 | TED Weekends

Read More: Knitting, Public Art, Imagination Innovation, Crochet, Feminist Art, Mathematics, Fiber Arts, Feminism, Geometry, Coral Reefs, TED Weekends News

Making things out of yarn used to be the realm of grannies, but fiber arts have evolved in the past few decades into a cutting-edge discipline.

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The Fastest Path Around the Bases

Frank Morgan | Posted 12.19.2012 | Sports

Read More: World Series, Baseball, Sports Science, Baserunning, Running the Bases, Geometry, Fastest Path Around the Bases, Video, Sports News

The standard recommended ''banana'' path follows the baseline maybe halfway and then veers a bit to the right to come at first base from a better angle to continue toward second. That cannot be ideal.

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Dynamic LED Dome Displays 16 Million Colors

Posted 09.21.2012 | Arts

Read More: Geodesic Domes, Fullerene Molecule, LED Lights, Buckyball, Leo Villareal, Video, Madison Square Park Art, Art Meets Science, Buckminster Fuller, Sculpture, Art in America, Mathematics, Art Installation, Geometry, Mad Sq Art, Arts News

You know what parks need? More geometry. We may not have come up with this unlikely combo on our own, but after seeing Leo Villareal's geometric sculp...

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'Taken Aback'

Jerry Zezima | Posted 10.20.2012 | Comedy

Read More: Pain, Stamford Advocate, Port Jefferson Station, Neck, Humor, Waterfall, Beer, Earthquake, Geometry, Haiti, Chiropractor, Novocain, Mortgage, Back, N.Y., Stamford, Comedy News

Because my back felt better the day of my appointment, DiBenedetto didn't crack it. But he did give me a brief education in chiropractic medicine. I came away from my first visit to a chiropractor with great respect for the profession.

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Seed Pods in my Hand (PHOTOS)

Hans Proppe | Posted 07.26.2012 | Arts

Read More: Seed Pods, Hand, Nature, Slidefreestyle, Geometry, Photography, Arts, Seed Photos, Exposure, Arts News

Over the years I have collected various seed pods as I ran across them in various travels and swap meets. Their size alone is astonishing.

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Tony Orrico Performance At Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 06.24.2012 | Home

Read More: Video, Mexico City, Art News, Tony Orrico, Spirograph, Drawing, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Dance, Geometry, Home News

With the exhibition CARBON, the Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City presents Tony Orrico's third solo exhibition. Orrico is a visual artist as well as ...

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Can You Guess What Inspired This Chair Design?

The Huffington Post | Kathryn Kattalia | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

We love it when we come across a unique find that is unlike anything we've seen before, and this one is no exception. Constructed from 23 wooden half ...

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Can Math Survive Without the Bees?

Frank Morgan | Posted 05.06.2012 | Science

Read More: Hexagons, Bees, Pentagons, Tilings, Thomas Hales, Kepler Conjecture, Mathematics, Geometry, Honeycomb, Mathematic Theorems, Video, Science News

The recent reports on the disappearance of bee populations have omitted mention of their role in the longest-standing open problem in mathematics.

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The Fascinating World Of Geometric Shapes

The Huffington Post | Amber Genuske | Posted 02.10.2012 | Home

Read More: Geometry Phil Cuttance, Phil Cuttance Faceture Geometry, Faceture, Video, Phil Cuttance Faceture, Phil Cuttance, Geometry, Geometry Faceture, Home News

Phil Cuttance is a craftsman in every sense of the word. He uses a basic machine, math and a careful hand to construct his product. Unlike other craft...

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Euclidean Geometry and the NCAA's Collegiate Model

Richard M. Southall | Posted 03.19.2012 | Sports

Read More: Antitrust, College Football, College Sports, Geometry, College Basketball, Sports News

The NCAA's collegiate model -- if it ever really existed -- died long ago and cannot be resuscitated. No matter how many times the big-time college-sport triangle is measured and re-measured, the sum of its angles is clearly not 180°.

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PHOTOS: Sculptures Made Out Of Office Supplies

Posted 12.26.2011 | Arts

Read More: Math, Harvard University, Zachary Abel, Algebra, Sculpture, Contemporary Art, Mathematics, Sculpture Art, Paper Clips, Geometry, Math Sculpture, Mit, Office Supplies, Arts News

"I think about math constantly and I see and look for math in everything around me." Zachary Abel is a second year Ph.D student in the MIT Mathematics...

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WATCH: Crazy, Choreographed Stop Motion Animation!

Posted 12.13.2011 | Arts

Read More: Partizan, Art, Origami, Video, Shapes, France, Stop-Motion Animation, Paper Art, Video Art, Partizan Production Company, Geometry, French Arts, Animation, Arts News

Stop motion animation has experienced a renaissance in a big way, thanks to artist-driven sharing websites, such as vimeo. With this influx of content...

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PHOTOS: E.V. Day's Kaleidoscopic Reinterpretation Of Monet's Flowers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Water Lily, Exhibition, Flowers, New York, Carolina Nitsch Gallery, E.V. Day, Geometry, Chromogenic Archival Print, Symmetry, Giverny, Claude Monet, Gardens, Peony, Slideadbigshot, Clematis, Seducers, Monet, Arts News

WHO: E.V. Day WHAT: Seducers WHEN: January 14 through March 5, 2011 WHERE: Carolina Nitsch Project Room 534 West 22 St. New York, NY 10011 212.645...

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Exhibition Spotlight: Artist Dimitri Kozyrev Explores Ruin, Geometry, And Stalin

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Stalin, El Lissitzsky, New York City, Ussr, Dimitri Kozyrev, ARt Exhibition, Painting, Lost Edge, Geometry, Painterly, Suprematism, Benrimon Contemporary, Avant-Garde, Malevich, Last One, Slidefullscreen, Landscape, Arts News

WHAT: Last One WHO: Dimitri Kozyrev WHEN: March 10, 2011 - April 1, 2011 Opening reception on March 10, 2011 from 5-9pm WHERE: Benrimon Cont...

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What if Geometry Was Called "Video Games"?

Joe Astroth | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

Read More: Mathematics, Math, Geometry, The Green Hornet, Home News

Green Hornet is a cool movie that was created using some of the same technology architects use to visualize buildings and engineers use to simulate machines. If they learn how to use them too, kids never have to stop playing.

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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: Federico Diaz's Geometric Death Frequency At MASS MoCA

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Installation Art, Art, Mass MoCa, Public Art, Data Analysis, Computers, Sculpture, Art Installation, Robots, Slidefullscreen, Geometry, Art Exhibitions, Frederico Diaz, Death, Arts News

WHO: Federico Díaz WHAT: Geometric Death Frequency--141 (site-specific sculpture by Prague-based artist Federico Diaz, specially designed for the co...

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