Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris savors the clockwork saw, in this brief video: (Thanks to Adam Rutherford for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Additional detail, from someone else who saw the saw
Year: 2014
The Dilemma-Zone Calculation
Yellow traffic lights posed and provided an opportunity for applied mathematicians. Witness this study, published more than a half century ago: “The Problem of the Amber Signal Light in Traffic Flow,” Denos Gazis [pictured here, reportedly thrilling an audience], Robert Herman, and Alexei Maradudint, Operations Research, vol. 8, no. 1, 1960, pp. 112-132. The authors, […]
Win 2 Tickets to the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony?
Buy or renew a subscription to our magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) by September 30th, and use the special code word when you do, and you will be entered in a drawing for 2 free tickets to the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony! What’s the code word? It’s the theme of this year’s […]
Big Data is, but not unquestioningly, the answer, he says
“Big Data,” a phrase that’s often said aloud with lots of vim (“Big Data!”), is just a heap of junk — until you know what you’re looking for. Jake Porway, writing in the Harvard Business Review, points this out more clearly than many others have: “We have a lot of data, but we have no idea […]