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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson
Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.
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In a big city, maybe nobody knows who is naught and who is nice. But in a small town, people know. And what they know could have an effect on how a small society operates.
The research is based on evolutionary game theory, which in this case applied the mathematical theory of games to cultural anthropology.
"The cooperators were too nice; they died out. In order to survive, they had to be discriminate about the help they gave."
Enter the shunners. These are the contributors in society who keep track of what others are doing and withdraw support from freeloaders.
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They were some of the most fiendish problems ever set for young mathematicians in an international competition. But toughness did not deter a team of British prodigies, who have just pulled off the country’s proudest maths performance in more than a decade.
Three teenagers representing the UK have just returned from Romania, where they scooped top prize in an invitation tournament.
The Romanian Master in Mathematics contest was set up to complement the International Mathematical Olympiad, which began in 1959 and now includes more than 90 countries. The problems in the Romanian Master were harder, however, with only the strongest Olympiad contenders selected to take part. This included the reigning champions from Russia.
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Origami has been around for 100s of years. It didn't change until 1970s when it experienced a Cambrian explosion in variety and techniques. It got richer and more interesting because people started applying math.
He shows how he uses these mathematical ideas to fold a square sheet of paper into anything.
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To understand tumor growth, a group of mathematicians applied a model based on a mathematical technique called optimal control theory, and got some interesting results: looked at cancer from the point of view of a tumor and asked: What can a tumor do to optimize its own growth? They focused on the phenomenon of genetic instability, a common feature of cancer in which cells mutate at an abnormally fast rate.
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A problem with the rapid increase in our ability to store data,is not only that we might have trouble finding things but that it could be difficult just deciding what to look for.
As we collect thousands of digital music tracks or videos, how will we ever be able to decide what to watch or listen to? The choice becomes overwhelming.
Or at least that's the thinking behind a recommendation engine developed by Bath-based physicist Martin Hopkins.
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Sophie Germain was the first to propose a realistic plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.
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A new analysis of behaviour in a structured population illuminates Darwin’s theories of co-operation and competition between kin, and provides an abstract model that could simplify scientists’ quest to map behaviour among disease-causing organisms within a cell. The study presents a simple formula for balancing the benefit and cost in altruistic acts, allowing researchers to predict behaviour and summarize disparate results in a simple framework.
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OMG! Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar wants girls to know that being good at numbers is cool.
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