If you’re earnestly chasing something that can’t tun as fast as you do, a cursory mathematical analysis of the situation can give a reassuring result – you’ll probably catch up with it. (Despite what the Ancient Greek philosopher Zeno might have said about it). But what if the entity being chased knows that it’s being […]
Tag: wild
Recognizing wild faces, or maybe not [Celebrity-based research]
“Our experimental results demonstrate that state-of-the-art techniques are not well-suited for violent scenes,” says the study “Wildest Faces: Face Detection and Recognition in Violent Settings,” Mehmet Kerim Yucel, Yunus Can Bilge, Oguzhan Oguz, Nazli Ikizler-Cinbis, Pinar Duygulu, Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis, arXiv:1805.07566, 2018. The authors, at Hacettepe University and Middle East Technical University, Turkey, further explain: “existing datasets do not capture the difficulty of face […]
A one-person conversation about living in the wild à la several different animals
The Conversation invited Charles Foster to have one side of a conversation about his experiences living as animals. A few days ago, Foster shared the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize for biology. That prize was awarded jointly to Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and […]
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year in beer breakthrough
Dr. Anne A. Madden, the 2015 Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club (LFHCfS) Woman of the Year, is part of the team that made a beer-related breakthrough in the study and manipulation of yeast. Dr. Madden is pictured here (in a photo by Lauren Nichols), examining yeast cultures: Dr. Madden will make a special appearance next week in the Twenty Fifth 1st […]
Wild Mice Utilize a Wheel of Fortuitous Apparation
Wheels sometimes do crop up in nature, especially when a human placed them there. Humans recently did it again, as this report makes clear: “Wheel Running in the Wild,” Johanna H. (“Joke”) Meijer [pictured here] and Yuri Robbers, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 281 no. 1786, July 7, 2014. The authors, at Leiden University […]
Wild house mouse music
Two studies of wild house mouse music, both from Vienna, the city of music. (The authors are now in various places, though. Possibly so, too, are some of the mice. Co-author Penn is still in Vienna, we believe.) “Spectrographic analyses reveal signals of individuality and kinship in the ultrasonic courtship vocalizations of wild house mice,” Frauke […]