Not so very long after the Ig Nobel event at the University of Tasmania, students there engaged in a nano-lecture competition. Wayne Goninon reports that "The idea was that students would describe their school in 7 words." Each of the winners received a copy of the book The Ig Nobel Prizes. Here are the winning […]
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Reading for pleasure: Mimesis
This week’s selection in our READING FOR PLEASURE series is "Mimesis as a phenomenon of semiotic communication."
Beating the dealer
Investigator David H. Grosof writes: A team of three successfully have used computation and communication devices to improve their odds at the roulette wheel, made 2.5 million bucks and did it legally. Reason: you can bet after the wheel has been spun, and they got enough data from imaging to improve their odds. I wonder […]
Rothschild?s Ouroborus
This week’s selection in our READING FOR PLEASURE series is "Rothschild?s Ouroborus."