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“[Physicists] have analysed the distribution of registrations for two conferences…[and] they can describe this distribution by a simple model, assuming that the ‘pressure to register’ is inversely proportional to the time left before the deadline.”
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An interactive guide to “bizarre” dinosaurs and their features. Via Laelaps.
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I can barely cope with the normal-size kind…
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“[The author] also refreshingly free of hang-ups about using the words “sexy” and “sexiness” in a scientific paper (also “firm and perky”, which I suspect that at least one peer reviewer will ask him to quantify), which I’d like to see more