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Why we don’t teach Compass and Straight edge Geometry anymore?.
Written by Jeanne Whitmore, founder and CEO of American Fork charter school Aristotle Academy.

FAU Receives $1 Million to Implement ‘iTeach Partnership Projects.
Palm Beach County pays more attention to geometry and U.S. history classes.

Humans Hard-wired into brain for Geometry.
Flexible intuitions of Euclidean geometry in the Mundurucu Amazonian indigene group.
The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Rubik's Cube Solution Video and News.
Rubik's Cube Announcement by Dr. Morley Davidson at the United States Rubik's Cube Championships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on August 8, 2010.

Shaping Bach's Geometry: Musical Offering.

The Geometry of a Business Plan.

Afghanistan Mining: US discovers $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits.
Massive mining riches in Afghanistan. Potential Billions in Lithium.
Map and News.

Raspadskaya Coal Mine Accident.
Video, Map, and News.
May 12, 2010. 60 dead in Russian mine blasts

Fortune 500 2010 by Industries, Interactive Mind Map
Mining and Crude-Oil Production Industry.

Cerro de Pasco city copes with being devoured by mine
The mile-wide gash grows almost daily with each dynamite blast, slowly devouring this bleak provincial capital high in the Andes. April 18, 2010.

Copper Mining Projects: Peru Seen Consolidating World Number Two Position In Copper April 9, 2010.

The deep roots of inequality.
April 16, 2010. MIT economics student’s study of Peru shows how practices from hundreds of years ago can influence prosperity today. ‘Pathbreaking,’ says a Harvard economist.
Maps and News.

Montcoal West Virginia Mine Explosion.
Video, Map, and News.
April 6, 2010, 3:30 PM. Rescuers suspended efforts early Tuesday to find four missing coal miners in West Virginia after a mine explosion killed 25 others in the deadliest such disaster in the United States in decades.

Machu Picchu and Yale University
Controversy: Peru drops six charges in suit.
March 22, 2010

Fashion and Style: Creating a 3-D Geometry.
Fashion’s new geometry for autumn/winter 2010.

Meet the Mathematicians 2009. Venue: University of Nottingham, School of Mathematics
The MtM event is organised as part of the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) the largest and most prestigious general meeting of academic researchers in applied mathematics in the UK.

Adding technology to geometry class improves opportunities to learn.
A new study co-written by a University of Illinois expert in math education.

Spring Reveals Saturn's Hexagon Jet Stream, NASA's Cassini mission.
The Persistent Hexagon.

The Tesoro Gold Project, Peru, St. Elias Mines.
The Property covers approximately 2000 hectares (5000 acres) and is part of the well-known gold-bearing Nazca-Ocona belt that is located in southern Peru.

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Customers Who Vote for This Year's Best Magazine Cover Automatically Get a Chance to Win a $10,000 Amazon.com Gift Card.

Study: Walking in circles.
Max-Planck-scientists show that people really walk in circles when lost.

Eight Year Old Boy First Visitor Of Beijing Water Cube.

3D software gees up geometry lessons
By guardian.co.uk.

Swine Flu Interactive Google Maps

Symptoms of Swine Flu, video
Swine Flu Outbreak. One family's fight against deadly virus, CBSNews.com

Drawing parallels in geometry.
Mikhail Gromov has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work making sense of the range of geometries that appeared in the 19th century and he is a worthy successor to the likes of Euclid, Riemann and Gauss, Bolyai and Lobachevsky.

Russian-French mathematician receives the Abel Prize.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (65) for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry".

Australia: Math in crisis as teachers go private.
Advanced mathematics is disappearing from public school classrooms, leaving students able to learn only basic math, because the few qualified teachers are being snapped up by the private sector.

Kepler Mission: A search for habitable planets. March 7, 2009.
Each rectangle indicates the specific region of the sky covered by each CCD element of the Kepler photometer. There are a total of 42 CCD elements in pairs, each pair comprising a square.

Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn. The Persistent Hexagon.

Fossil skull of giant toothy seabird found in Ocucaje, Ica, Peru, February 27, 2009.

James Whitmore died of lung cancer, Friday, Feb. 6, 2009.

Studies reveal genetic links between Mochicas and Japanese.

Yma Sumac, 'Peruvian songbird', 'Nightingale of the Andes', 'The Castafiori Inca' with multi-octave range, dies at 86. 

R.I.P. Good Times? Sequoia Capital recently made a presentation to its portfolio companies about how to try to survive an economic downturn.

DARPA Mathematical Challenges 2009 DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of DARPA Mathematical Challenges, with the goal of dramatically revolutionizing mathematics.

America's Best Colleges 2009, Ranking, Interactive Mind Map

Peru archaeologists find pre-Inca sacrificial tomb. in Chotuna, Lambayeque.

Video: Peru archaeologists find pre-Inca sacrificial tomb. in Chotuna, Lambayeque.

Cahuachi: Archeologists in Peru unearth human sacrifices. Engraved gourds with nature-related and abstract designs.

Pre-Incan tomb 1700 years old found in Peru, July 2008.
A Canadian-led team of archaeologists has unearthed the 1,700 year-old tomb of a leader of the pre-Columbian Moche culture in northern Peru, the scientists said.

BMW GINA (Geometry and functions In 'N' Adaptations).
BMW Innovates with GINA Light Visionary Model based on Geometry and functions in 'N' Adaptations.

Who Found Machu Picchu?.
Detailed investigations by a US historian have revealed that Machu Picchu was, in fact, discovered over 40 years earlier by a German businessman.

Brain Rules, 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by Dr. John Medina.

Dr. Medina spoke about his new book "Brain Rules" at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters.

Brain Function Index.

Research: Golf Prolongs Life.
Golf adds five years to your life

Stonehenge builders had geometry skills to rival Pythagoras
Five years of detailed research, carried out by the Oxford University landscape archaeologist Anthony Johnson, claims that Stonehenge was designed and built using advanced geometry.

Nazca Lines and Indiana Jones
See also: Archaeologists explore Peruvian mystery. University of Bristol.

Inca Skull Surgery
Inca Skull Surgeons Were "Highly Skilled," Study Finds.
Trepanation = square hole in the skull.

Potato Inca's Food
As Other Staples Soar, Potatoes Break New Ground.

Bandurria is the oldest Peruvian archaeological site, says expert
Bandurria may rival Caral as oldest citadel in Americas.
Satellite View: circular ceremonial center

Geometry shapes sound of music. Journal Science publishes paper by music professors from Florida State, Princeton and Yale.

Charlton Heston and Machu Picchu. Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84.

Thank God it’s Pi Day: Next Friday is a rather special date. The month (3) and the day (14) give us 3.14  which is pi to two decimal places. That’s enough for teachers around the world to mark it as International Pi Day.
Video: Pi Day made by a 7th grade math teacher for students in Louisville, KY.

Computers can use geometry to predict pretty faces
The Renaissance artists’ formula for beauty.

Plaza in Peru may be the America's oldest urban site
The circular structure at the ruins of Sechin Bajo is about 5,500 years old, archaeologists report.

New York State’s return to geometry requires teacher preparation 

It’s All About Geometry: Protein Contact Surfaces Hold Key to Cures 
Supercomputer Powers Tool to Reveal Hidden Interactions, University of California, San Diego.

"Geometry is king," said Tom Stites, Nike Golf's Director of Product Creation for Clubs. "The principle of geometry provides our research and development team with unlimited possibilities and inspiration, and the new SUMO² Fairway Wood is a derivative of that." 

Math in the News 
Algebra, Analysis, AP Calculus, AP Statistics, Applied Mathematics...

Geometry is All: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything by A. Garrett Lisi.
Is Garrett Lisi another Einstein?
Video: Is this the Theory of Everything? November 25, 2007

Lie group E8' math puzzle solved. This achievement is significant both as an advance in basic knowledge and because of the many connections between E8 and other areas, including string theory and geometry.