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fromNature
1 week ago

How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico's powerful drug cartels

Mathematician Rafael Prieto-Curiel developed a quantitative model estimating 175,000 people work in Mexican drug cartels, making them the fifth-largest national employer, despite political backlash.
fromenglish.elpais.com
5 months ago

Gonzalo de Polavieja, neuroscientist: We tend to follow the few who make clear decisions'

Gonzalo de Polavieja, 56, is exasperated by the ease with which many people opine on topics without knowing anything about them. A neuroscientist trained at Oxford and Cambridge, with a PhD in quantum physics and a postdoctoral degree in mathematical neurobiology, he is currently on leave from Spain's CSIC research center and directs the Laboratory of Mathematics of Behavior and Intelligence at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, where he studies how groups of animals including humans organize themselves.
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OMG science
fromArs Technica
10 months ago

The physics of bowling strike after strike

Physicists have developed a mathematical model to enhance bowling ball trajectory predictions, considering factors like oil patterns and ball design.
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