‘Math cluelessness’ may be in your genes

In what sounds like it is a bit analogous to dyslexia, it seems some people just don’t have agood feel for numbers.

No word in the story as to how heritable number sense, or its lack, is.

Can math predict war?

So claim scientists at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge, Mass., and Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

They claim to have been successful in showing how their modeling could have predicted the various conflicts of the 1990s and early 2000s in the former Yugoslavia.