Indian woman who loves numbers and speed of mind
New York based feature profiles Shakuntala Devi, a self taught Indian prodigy who solves 2 digit arithmetic, cube roots, and 201 digit roots in seconds without pencils. She travels the world, critiques math education, and advocates playful, real world math to inspire confidence and logical thinking.
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Shingles light on a common nerve illness
Dear Dr Lamb explains shingles linking it to the chicken pox virus, dormant in nerve roots for decades before activation. The piece notes distribution along sensory nerves, non contagiousness with prior chicken pox exposure, age-related rise, possible persistent neuralgic pain, and limited effective treatment while antivirals and steroids have uncertain roles. Readers are invited to request Health Letter on body temperature.
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Magically Guessing Birth Month and Day Trick
A playful explanation of a Shakuntala Devi method to reveal birth date. By secretly multiplying the birth month by five and performing a sequence of additions and multiplications, the final result allows you to deduce the birth month from the first digits and the birth day from the last two digits after subtracting 265. The steps yield a neat mental math trick for entertaining friends.
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