Patent application US2007170798 is for a “Device of levitation of an item over an optimized base by means of permanent magnets. The equilibrium is stable along one or two axes by means of these permanent magnets, and along the one or two others by means of a combination of electromagnets of near zero consumption at […]
The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush
Scholars like to celebrate the leadership genius of President George Bush – scholars named Carolyn B Thompson, James W Ware, Marvin Olasky and Ken Blanchard. Thompson and Ware wrote a book called The Leadership Genius of George W Bush: 10 Common Sense Lessons from the Commander-in-Chief. Published during the early years of his presidency, it […]
Do Copied Citations Create Renowned Papers?
Recently we discovered [see cond-mat/0212043] that the majority of citations in scientific papers are simply copied from the lists of references that appear in other papers. Here we show that a model, in which a scientist picks three random papers, cites them, and also copies a quarter of their references accounts quantitatively for empirically observed […]
Aurelien Mazurie joins LFHCfS
Aurelien Mazurie has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: Roughly speaking, my goal is to study the cell (and if possible, higher level of organisation like tissues, organisms, populations and … ecosystems) as a entangled set of interacting components, in order to find underlying logic and structures. Aurelien Mazurie, Ph.D., LFHCfS […]