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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover (a late one) making up for […]
Click to embiggen This is an illustration of a model of a paradox – they hydrostatic paradox, as demonstrated by Blaise Pascal. The paradox is […]
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 […]
Click to embiggen An inside that is also an outside, as depicted in Python. From
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread […]
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