You may remember from your calculus classes that symmetry can sometimes be used to solve equations that at first look daunting. But some symmetries are so complicated that they are tough to spot, even for a computer. University of Michigan researchers recently reported a breakthrough in this area. From the release:  In less than a ...

The headline from the news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education screams that a third of public school students need remediation at college. Read the item, though, and it is clear that the there is less to the headline than meets the eye, and the news may be less alarming than it first appears. First, they are only referring to public school ...