: Number Our Days . Barbara Myerhoff.

Give Us Back Our 11 Days

It has long been a matter of idle speculation with me to wonder what kind of lives the sort of people who are terribly good at something or other led before the something or other they turned out to be terribly good at were invented. To make myself clearer, how must chaps like Chopin or Art Tatum, say, have felt before the piano came on the scene, or Lord Lichfield before photography? What the ...

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Alberta Number Theory Days – L-functions

Alberta Number Theory Days fell at the very start of the newly formed PIMS CRG in Number Theory, and was thus an excellent opportunity to kickstart interactions between three of the participating institutions, the universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge. A broad range of topics in number theory were featured, but almost all talks were in areas motivated by the understanding of L-functio...

Cycle number Days in Milk # of Eligible

impacts on profitability of dairies, primarily through its impact on average milk/ cow/ day, but also due to its impact on culling and the number of calves born. Despite improved understanding of the financial impacts of poor reproductive management, reproductive efficiency has been on the decline within the dairy industry for the last 50 years. Consequently, producers have expressed renewed in...

Capturing climate variability during our ancestors' earliest days.

C limate’s role in shaping the environmental and evolutionary history of our earliest ancestors remains an actively debated topic. In PNAS, Magill et al. (1, 2) present records of terrestrial habitat and hydroclimate variation and pacing from Olduvai Gorge sediments during a key interval of our ancestors’ divergence and dispersal approximately 2.0 Ma. Although there is general consensus that ec...