Error in golden ratio at exhibit? Museum now says it’s right

Error in golden ratio at exhibit? Museum now says it’s right

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston science museum that praised a teenager for catching a mistake in the golden ratio at a decades-old exhibit now says it wasn't an error after all.

The Museum of Science released a statement Tuesday afternoon saying the equation in the 34-year-old "Mathematica exhibit" with minus signs instead of plus signs is actually the "less common – but no less accurate – way to present it."

U.S. women’s World Cup win sparks Title IX debate
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U.S. women’s World Cup win sparks Title IX debate

Evan Lips

BOSTON – The U.S. women's soccer team World Cup triumph on Sunday has reignited an old conversation about the limits of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs including athletics.

The day after Team USA's 5-2 victory over Japan, CommonWealth Magazine reported that the U.S. women's soccer team took home $2 million for winning it all, while the winner of the 2014 men's cup, Germany, netted $35 million.

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