Triangulating a location on a perfectly round globe is relatively easy, but how do you do it on a globe that's squished in the middle -- an "oblate spheroid"? This week we take a look at Gladys Mae West, a pioneering African-American mathematician whose work in the mid-20th century is still used for global positioning systems today.
# 31 – How (and Why) Mob Mentality Works
#30 – Down With Gravity
#29 – “I don’t even see color.”
#28 – What the Phở is “The Vault”?
#27 – Bernoulli Puts On The Pressure
#26 – Where Snap Decisions Come From
#25 – The Large Hadron Collider Gets Particle Fever
# 24 – The Science of Self-Delusion
#22 – Fireside Chat Stew (with rockets!)
#21 – Bitcoin
# 20 – Feel the Vibration
#19 – 100 Million Years of Encryption
#18 – Lidar? I barely knew har!
#17 – Nuclear Submarines and the Silicone Valley
#16 – Listening to Schizophrenia
# 15 – Oily Ouija
#14 – Space Printing — IN 3D!
#13 – Dutch Tears and Hydrophobia
#12 – The Unipiper!
#11 – Series of Tubes
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