Whatever you consider Sesame Street’s Count, man or monster, he’s got a simple mission: to count things. It is his drive, his base need, the source of his delightful full name: Count Von Count. Being ...

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Little kids are looking at a lot of dots these days. The theory behind this increasingly popular practice is that an effective way to teach counting might be by … not counting. That’s the ...

What is the most accurate way to count votes in U.S. elections? Is it by hand, as many Republican lawmakers have been demanding in the aftermath of 2020? Or the traditional way in which machines tally ...

890 Share or save for quick reference. Ever feel like math is a foreign language? You’re not alone. Many kids (and adults, if we’re being honest) struggle with basic math concepts, and it can be a ...

The rock group Counting Crows were onto something when they chose their band name. Crows can indeed count, according to research published this week in Science. The results show that crows have ...

What just happened? Apple has been slow to adopt generative AI, but that might be changing with the introduction of MM1, a multimodal large language model capable of interpreting both image and text ...

Some people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) experience a type of compulsion called compulsive counting. These individuals may feel the need to count objects, people, or actions.

This year, NMNH director Kirk Johnson helped spearhead an effort to add up the collections of the world’s largest museums Jack Tamisiea A small fraction of the more than 50 million specimens housed in ...

Compulsively counting objects or actions is a common symptom of OCD. Exposure therapy can help you develop coping mechanisms when you encounter triggers. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a ...