A business Powerpoint presentation — apparently genuinely made by someone at a company called Softbank — includes this educational image of a goose with a caption that says “Goose was not valued.” Call it a metaphor, call it whatever you like, this Powerpoint slide brings renewed meaning to the old business phrase “goosing the numbers”. […]
Julien Blondeau, who researches thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, writes us about his most unusual research project: I can now perfectly explain why, for instance, field hockey players score more than football players, although the fields have approximately the same size, the number of players is exactly the same, the goals […]
Yes, if you really love numbers—and love surprises—savor this video review of the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates:
Here’s Olga Shishkov talking about some maggots, and some numbers that, when she was a child, excited Olga in a way that led to her eventual unusual career. Olga studies how maggots manage to do some of the surprising, impressive things they do. ABOUT THIS LITTLE VIDEO SERIES—This is part of a series of sessions […]