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Unlike Patriots, NFL slow to embrace 'Moneyball'
(AP) -- It's advice that sounds like heresy on the gridiron: Go for it on fourth down. Try more onside kicks. Running backs don't matter much.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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'Genetic programming': The mathematics of taste
The design of aromas — the flavors of packaged food and drink and the scents of cleaning products, toiletries and other household items — is a multibillion-dollar business. The big ...
Tue 24 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Mathematics confirm the chaos of the Spanish labor market
Unemployment time series in Spain behave in a chaotic way according to a study at the University of Seville. Such chaos demonstrates the complex and unpredictable nature of the Spanish labour ...
Wed 25 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Mathematical ecology: Spot check
Leopard country? TIGER bush gets its name because the bands and patches of trees and shrubs found in arid climes often grow in ways that, viewed from above, look like the stripes and spots on ...
Thu 12 Jan 12 from The Economist
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Breakthrough model reveals evolution of ancient nervous systems through seashell colors
Determining the evolution of pigmentation patterns on mollusk seashells—which could aid in the understanding of ancient nervous systems—has proved to be a challenging feat for researchers. ...
Thu 12 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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Sherlock: The case of Moriarty's maths
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows the sleuth’s arch-enemy has a new weapon: mathematics supplied by a team from Oxford University.
Tue 10 Jan 12 from PhysOrg
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The World Loses Its Great Fractal Mind, Benoit Mandelbrot, at 85
The world is not smooth, made of perfect spheres and unbroken lines. Its ...
Mon 18 Oct 10 from Discover Magazine
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The Physics of The Flower’s Bloom
While wandering lonely as a cloud, William Wordsworth should have stopped to wonder how those daffodils bloomed. Not content to just watch flowers dance in the breeze, Harvard physicists have ...
Tue 22 Mar 11 from Wired Science
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What Does 'P vs. NP' Mean for the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust--but even failed attempts can advance computer science. Programmers and computer scientists have been buzzing for the past week about the latest attempt ...
Thu 19 Aug 10 from MIT Technology Review
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Brilliant & Reclusive Russian Mathematician Doesn't Need Your Prize Money
Grigori Perelman isn’t much for prizes. This week Perelman, one of ...
Fri 2 Jul 10 from Discover Magazine
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