Millennium

Institutions and the transmission of upper-tail human capital: scientific lineages across a millennium

Announce Type: new Abstract: What made useful knowledge cumulative was not discovery alone but the institutions that transmitted it. We provide the first exhaustive structural measurement of the network through which upper-tail human capital passed from master to student across a millennium. Using 470,000 mentor-student records from Wikidata (which integrates the Mathematics Genealogy Project and MacTutor Archive), and all 64 historical Fields Medalists as a fixed, ex ante tracer set,...

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Popular amusement park bans guest for life after roller coaster stunt viral video

A YouTuber has been banned for life from visiting all Six Flags parks after posting a viral video that appeared to show him eating chicken nuggets while riding one of the country's most famous roller coasters. The video, uploaded in May by content creator Allen Ferrell, shows him attempting to eat McDonald's chicken nuggets while riding Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. The stunt quickly gained attention online, generating hundreds of thousands of views and prompting a...

Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct

Scientists race to collect the last seeds from a critically endangered tree before it goes extinct Seeds from the last surviving wild Dendroseris neriifolia tree are now stored in Kew Gardens' Millennium Seed Bank as researchers work to find ways to reintroduce the species into the wild. One of the world's rarest trees, a cliffside plant with just one known individual left in the wild, may have a new chance at survival after scientists collected hundreds of seeds from the lone survivor's...

Yo! Sushi boss warns UK 'high streets will become landing areas for delivery drones'

Sushi boss warns UK 'high streets will become landing areas for delivery drones' Entrepreneur Simon Woodroffe on how he went from prison to multi-millionaire - and even tried to buy the Millennium Dome At school, Simon Woodroffe’s exasperated chemistry teacher once declared “you’ll either be a millionaire or go to jail”. As it turned out, the founder of restaurant chain Yo! Sushi and one of the original investors on TV’s Dragons' Den did both. Now 74, the entrepreneur is still bubbling with...

Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 3 at Madison Square Garden could become most expensive sporting event on record

The first NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden this millennium has the potential to be the hottest ticket of all time. The New York Knicks are aiming for their first title in 53 years, and they will host Game 3 of the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999 on Monday. Knicks games are always a pricey ticket, but this one trumps all.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE

Mean tropical year length at arbitrary ecliptic longitude

arXiv:2605.02239v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We compute the mean interval between successive returns of the apparent geocentric solar longitude $\lambda$ to a fixed value $L \in \{0^\circ, 45^\circ, 90^\circ, \ldots, 315^\circ\}$, averaged over a multi-millennium window; this gives eight ``mean years'' against which calendar leap rules can be tuned: four cardinal-point years (equinoxes and solstices); four cross-quarter years. The construction is built on Meeus's low-precision...

‘I was dazzled. I thought the walls would fall down’: the oral history of DMZ, the label and club night that gave dubstep its soul

In an extract from Aftershock, a definitive new history of dubstep, DMZ’s Mala, Coki and Loefah recall the bass drops and pacifist mentality that went into their creationBy the turn of the millennium, British electronic music had some growing pains. The jungle and drum’n’bass scenes that energised the 1990s were running out of creative gas, and garage had shifted from the moody underground into champagne flash and chart hits. Across pockets of London, Croydon and Essex, a tiny group of...

Medieval pandemic left a hidden legacy in Europe's oldest trees

Medieval pandemic left a hidden legacy in Europe's oldest trees Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates how radiocarbon dating can reveal the maximum lifespan of Mediterranean hardwoods, uncovering hidden links between human history and long-term ecosystem dynamics. By analyzing mature and ancient oak trees across Italy, researchers found that a millennium of age is attainable from the...

‘I was dazzled. I thought the walls would fall down’: the oral history of DMZ, the label and club night that gave dubstep its soul

In an extract from Aftershock, a definitive new history of dubstep, DMZ’s Mala, Coki and Loefah recall the bass drops and pacifist mentality that went into their creationBy the turn of the millennium, British electronic music had some growing pains. The jungle and drum’n’bass scenes that energised the 1990s were running out of creative gas, and garage had shifted from the moody underground into champagne flash and chart hits. Across pockets of London, Croydon and Essex, a tiny group of...