So a shark, a hunter-gatherer and a honeybee walk into a bar…
…and they way they move, ScienceDaily says follows the same mathematical pattern: A mathematical pattern of movement called a Lévy walk describes the foraging behavior […]
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Polynesian polynomials? Islanders counted in binary.
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific: Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to […]
Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton are individually […]
SONG: “Beautiful People” (a penitential Books cover)
SONG: “Beautiful People” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for […]
Science Art: Bodendruckapparat nach Pascal by Max Kohl
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
Finding the influential few. In medicine, in politics, and in social networks….
Nature looks at the star power of “network theory,” curious statistics that control all kinds of complicated systems. They’ve found that even really complex networks […]
Science Art: Finite Element Mesh for a Klein Surface, by Cristian Barbarosie, 2009.
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
Space statistics: Martian astronauts would see a 1-megaton collision
MIT Technology Review crunches the numbers and figures that anyone who spends three years on Mars is going to witness an H-bomb-sized asteroid collision: Today. […]
Science Art: Jungle Allure by Diane Walker
This painting was one of the winners of the Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007, a mathematical art contest. I suppose nowadays, fractal art seems […]
If you were an MIT math student, you’d fix the lottery too.
Boston Globe blows the lid off an M.I.T. syndicate that appears to have made a cool $8 million fixing the lottery: [Massachusetts Inspector General Gregory […]
What’s behind your car?
PhysOrg knows, thanks to this math professor’s blind-spot-eliminating side-view mirror: A side mirror that eliminates the dangerous “blind spot” for drivers has now received a […]
Airplane profits – when “average” means “most dangerous.”
PhysOrg has something new for fearful flyers to obsess over. The further an airline is from its break-even point – either losing money or making […]
The 147 corporations that run everything.
New Scientist looks at where and how business happens – and reveals that out of 37 million global companies, it’s only a very few who […]
Hot spots help health care
PBS Frontline looks at how one urban physician, Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, has figured out how to fix our health care system – by using digital […]
SONG: One In Ten
SONG: “One In Ten.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread […]