In 1912 Ramanujan, a 24-year-old clerk at what was then the Madras Port Trust in India, began mailing pages of new, unproven formulas to mathematicians across England.
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Lyndie Chiou,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2026
An Illinois man was arrested and charged by federal authorities for allegedly mailing letters containing an unknown substance to the state’s congressional offices, the Department of Justice said on Monday.
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David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Oct. 2026
At the supervisors’ meeting, Lorraine Pedrotti, who owns property south of Centerville Beach, said the county has done a poor job communicating with nearby landowners.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Oct. 2026
Stop-motion is very much about physical puppets and physical sets, about communicating emotional beats with puppets.
Thinking that writing code was the only bottleneck for deploying new software is like the Titanic seeing the tip of the iceberg and assuming there was nothing underneath it.
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Brian Jenney,
IEEE Spectrum,
23 Oct. 2026
Raichlen’s career, in a way, is similar in that he’s never been stuck in the lane of writing about barbecuing only brisket and pork.
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