Karen A. Fox and friends developed a new way to test whether—or not—a bobcat has a goodly amount of domestic cat inside it. They (Fox and friends) tell the story in a newly published study: “A Novel Test for Determination of Wild Felid-Domestic Cat Hybridization,” E.S. Chiu, K. Fox, L. Wolfe, and S. Vandewoude, Forensic […]
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Rejoice? Run? Hide? The Dawn of Experimental Econophysics
Everything can be explained, to some degree, by marrying economics to physics. This book does that: Experimental Econophysics: Properties and Mechanisms of Laboratory Markets, by Ji-Ping Huang [pictured here], Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-44234-0. The author explains: “Experimental Econophysics describes the method of controlled human experiments, which is developed by physicists to study problems in economics […]