Happiness and the English Language
Happiness and the English Language The words in four massive text databases -- 361 billion words in 3.29 million books on Google Books, 9 billion words in 821 million tweets issued between 2008 and...
View ArticleNewton's Notebook 2
The first page of one of Newton’s notebooks. It reads, "Not fit to be printed.”
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The original cover of Newton's ‘Waste Book,’ which he used in the mid-1660s to think through what would later become calculus, mechanics, optics and other foundational concepts.
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A portrait of Isaac Newton painted by Godfrey Kneller. Image: National Portrait Gallery, London/Wikimedia Commons
View ArticleThe Honeybee Dance
The Honeybee Dance When foraging honeybees return with news of food, they perform a complicated series of movements and steps that convey its exact location to their hivemates. Called the waggle dance,...
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Photographer capturing Newton’s Principia on the Library’s conservation cradle.
View ArticleDrawing of a Prism
The largest collection of Isaac Newton's papers has gone digital, committing to open-access posterity the works of history's greatest scientist. Among the works shared online by the Cambridge Digital...
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