Here is another logistics video. The activities shown here can be modeled with standard mathematical techniques, should it appeal to you to do so: [vimeo]106226560[/vimeo] (Thanks to investigator Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
Year: 2014
A past Ig Nobel winner recounts the glory (or whatever)
Laurent Bègue, who a year ago was (together with his colleagues) awarded the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize for psychology, recounts the experience. He writes, in the Huffington Post: Le jour où j’ai reçu un IG Nobel L’université américaine de Harvard décerne chaque année les LG Nobel. Ces prix récompensent des scientifiques dont les travaux font “rire, […]
Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
So you love opera, and you think you know the heights and depths of “Là ci darem la mano” and of the finale — “the Commendatore scene” — in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”? Ha. Watch the live webcast of the 2014 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, which includes (among many things) the premiere of the mini-opera “What’s Eating […]
Artists and their difficulties with gaits
Even the most accomplished artists sometimes have difficulty in accurately portraying human anatomy. Paul Cezzane, for instance, had trouble with hands (examples [1] [2] [3] ). Another persistently tricky area is highlighted (or, if you prefer, highlit) by Professor Julian Meltzoff of La Jolla, California,in a recent article for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the […]