This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Lipstick in the brain — Lipstick interacts with the human brain mostly in indirect ways. Kazue Hirabayashi and colleagues have been modernising the search for some of those interactions. Their stated goal is to find “a […]
“Day traders tend to coordinate their behaviour in the same way that cicadas synchronise their chirping,” reports the Physics arXiv blog. The discovery is explained in detail in the study: “Synchronicity, Instant Messaging And Performance Among Financial Traders,” Serguei Saavedra, Kathleen Hagerty and Brian Uzzi. arxiv.org/abs/1110.0381. The authors are atNorthwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. They say: “racing to […]