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Browsing Posts published in January, 2007

Now here is something interesting: adding an extra sense via a magnetic implant. Please be aware when clicking the link that some pics are not for the faint of head, viz. you will see blood The Gift of Magnetic Vision [The Publisher’s Ring] BME: How does it feel to you in the absence of a [...]

The opinion that beauty in human faces is connected to symmetry is widely “known” but seems to be false: Overcoming Bias: Symmetry Is Not Pretty Technorati Tags: statistics

An interesting parallel between Bayes and Evolution: Social Science Statistics Blog: Bayesian inference and natural selection Technorati Tags: complexity, statistics

I found this site: Understanding Mathematics and would like to recommend it very much. It has some interesting insights into how to learn mathematics – indeed, it also holds a lot of insights for teachers – how they should go about teaching math (didactics of math is a subject suffering from too much neglect). In [...]