{"id":8823,"date":"2010-02-14T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/nothing-says-%e2%80%9ci-love-you%e2%80%9d-like-a-non-orientable-surface-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T23:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:42:27","slug":"nothing-says-%e2%80%9ci-love-you%e2%80%9d-like-a-non-orientable-surface-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/nothing-says-%e2%80%9ci-love-you%e2%80%9d-like-a-non-orientable-surface-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Says \u201cI Love You\u201d Like a Non-Orientable Surface | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feeling like Valentine’s Day is a little too cutesy for an intellectual heavyweight such as yourself? Nonsense; the heart may have its reasons, but reason can certainly figure them out, given sufficient grant funding and some diligent graduate students. Jennifer Ouellette<\/a> points to a talk by Mary Roach that is safe for TED but arguably not safe for work, and shares some brain scans to prove that love is really blind.<\/p>

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\"fourthheartcurve\"If all that biology is a bit too squishy, Sarah Kavassalis does the math<\/a>. Here you will find the right functions to use to draw hearts — my favorite is the fourth heart curve from Wolfram|Alpha<\/a>, shown at right — and how to construct topologically nontrivial versions out of construction paper and scissors. Who says mathematicians aren’t practical? Nor are they above venturing into the realm of the literary.<\/p>

Roses are red.
Violets are approximately blue.
A paracompact manifold with a Lorentzian metric,
can be a spacetime, if it has dimension greater than or equal to two.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Shakespeare, maybe not. But the course of true science never did run smooth.<\/p>

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