A team of physicists and mathematicians attempted to apply their physics knowledge to understanding how divorced couples can better deal with custody of the children: “The physics of custody,” Andres Gomberoff, Victor Munoz and Pierre Paul Romagnoli, arXiv:1305.0935v3, December 19, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Judith Weaver for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at […]
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The spectra in the ring in the voice of the child solo singers
Some scientific papers seem meant—because of their topic—to be sung aloud, if only the wording were adjusted to make them easier to sing. Here’s one such study: “‘Ring’ in the Solo Child Singing Voice,” David M. Howard, Jenevora Williams [pictured here], Christian T. Herbst, Journal of Voice, epub November 11, 2013. The authors, at the […]
Name That Child Computationally
A new study outlines how the Google PageRank algorithm is used to choose a name for a new child. In accord with mathematicians’ traditional practice, the study does not explicitly name the name of even one child: “Recommending Given Names – Mining Relatedness of Given Names based on Data from the Social Web,” Folke Mitzlaff […]
The eagle and child — a new case and a famous old one
This video — of an eagle trying to snatch a child in Montreal — echoes the once-famous case of “the Taung Child”. The historic case was discussed in the study “The Load of the Taung Child,” Lee R. Berger and Ronald J. Clarke, Nature, vol. 379, no. 29, 1996, p. 778. We held a limerick contest […]