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  1. From the May 23, 1931, issue

    TOUCH OF SPRING FEVER MAKES WHOLE WORLD KIN In the spring a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of another nap even more often than it does to amative imaginings, Tennyson to the contrary notwithstanding. Spring fever, that drowsiness and mild lassitude that comes of warmth and well-being rather than of the crabbed winter of […]

    By Science News
  2. Math

    Cosmic Numerology

    Like the ancient Pythagoreans, astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) found numbers fascinating. Imbued with the same conviction of a natural order that drove Pythagoras (c. 580–500 B.C.) and his followers to search for an underlying numerical harmony, Kepler maintained that the physical universe was laid out according to a mathematical design that was simple and accessible […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  3. Math

    Cosmic Numerology

    Like the ancient Pythagoreans, astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) found numbers fascinating.