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Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

NBA Lakers Celtics Finals Kevin Garnett shooting.

10 Great Sports Rivalries

Paul Revere. "The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.," engraved by Paul Revere. Boston Massacre.

There’s a Riot Goin’ On: Riots in U.S. History (Part One)

Scolex (head) of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The hooks of the scolex enable the tapeworm to attach to the intestinal wall.

Uninvited Guests: The 7 Worst Parasitic Worms

Time zone map with standard time zones and International Date Line

Why Are Some Time Zones 30 Minutes Off Instead of an Hour?

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method of false position Horner’s method Newton’s iterative method eigenvalue solution function continuity extremum singularity special function logistic function Riemann zeta function recursive function harmonic function Lagrangian function exponential function

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François Viète

French mathematician

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Equations written on blackboard

Numbers and Mathematics