The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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With all the noise in the world, we could all do with blocking some of it out. That's the promise of noise-cancelling headphones – they silence the outside world so you can focus on your music, ...

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