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Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, so it’s only fitting that his translation from 1926 is finally being published. Tolkien’s son Christopher, who edited the work said: “It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his […]

Given my inability to do complex math, it’s especially troubling to learn that scientists at Cornell have discovered that flies are doing calculus: At Cornell University, for instance, researchers have been investigating how the flies recover when their flight is momentarily disturbed. Among their conclusions: a small group of fly neurons is solving calculus problems, […]

Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien was largely responsible for the resurgence of interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, so it’s only fitting that his translation from 1926 is finally being published. Tolkien’s son Christopher, who edited the work said: “It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his […]

Given my inability to do complex math, it’s especially troubling to learn that scientists at Cornell have discovered that flies are doing calculus: At Cornell University, for instance, researchers have been investigating how the flies recover when their flight is momentarily disturbed. Among their conclusions: a small group of fly neurons is solving calculus problems, […]