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🗓️ 29 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:33.2 | Why, hello, fellow math nerds. This is Tulika Bose, senior multimedia editor at Scientific American. |
0:40.3 | If you miss that famous Scientific American Martin Gardner column from the 1950s, |
0:45.3 | never fear we have some great mathematics content coming your way in the new year. |
0:51.3 | But for now, I'd like to leave you with one of my favorite stories from this last year, hosted |
0:57.0 | and reported by the incredibly talented Alison Partial. |
1:01.2 | It tracks the story of Cleo, a mysterious user on a math stack exchange, known for unleashing |
1:07.0 | a series of rapid-fire drive-by answers on the forum without showing any of her work. |
1:13.5 | Between 2013 and 2015, the username's Cleo did this about 37 times, |
1:19.7 | driving everyone with graduate-level STEM degrees a little, well, wild. |
1:25.2 | But who was Cleo? |
1:26.9 | Allison takes us into the story. |
1:30.3 | It's a bit of an urban legend in mathematics. There's a sort of a romance of a story in a way. |
1:39.3 | I'm Alison Partial. You're listening to Science Quickly. Today, we've got an episode about a mysterious figure in the online math world. |
1:48.0 | They disappeared years ago, but they're still sparking debate and speculation. |
1:57.0 | We all love a good puzzle. Some people have their crosswords. |
2:00.0 | Some people play Sudoku. |
2:01.6 | Other people are still doing Wordle. But Ron Gordon, a patent agent and a former physicist in Massachusetts, does hardcore calculus. |
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