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The Human Sexes - Different But Equal
The Human Sexes - The Language Of The Sexes
The Human Sexes - Patterns Of Love
The Human Sexes - Passages Of Life
The Human Sexes - The Maternal Dilemma
The Human Sexes - The Gender Wars
Will boys always be boys and girls always be girls? Will we ever really understand each other? You may be shocked by your conclusions. Prepare yourself for an intimate, erotic examination of physical differences between the sexes, from body fat to brain power. Examine brain scans that show that men and women even think differently about the same problems.
How does boy meet girl? Is finding a mate ever easy? How do you send out a signal that you're available? There are as many ways to speak the Language Of The Sexes as there are cultures.
How far would you go for love? Patterns Of Love will take you to a brothel in Nevada, love hotels for married adults in Japan and a bachelor auction in Alaska.
Does society treat men and women differently? You may not like the unsettling answers you'll find in Passages Of Life.
In today's world' is it tougher to be a mother... or a father? Will it ever be possible to balance work and motherhood? No matter what you currently believe, The Maternal Dilemma will surprise you with new insight.
Do you know what side of the Battle Of The Sexes you're on? You might be stunned by this eye-opening look at the recent struggle for equality between the sexes.
Originally, there was a primitive balance between the sexes, but when people left the village for the city, the natural balance disappeared. Find out the origins of honeymoons and other tools of male dominance like wedding rings and female circumcision. Travel to Finland for the annual wife-carrying contest celebrating the capture of women from other villages. follow the rise of feminism, from turn-of-the-century suffragettes to the National Organization for Women. Visit the front lines of the gender wars with female stock traders and female firefighters who parachute into blazing California forests.
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Rise of the External Brain - CACM Blog - Communications of the ACM - Greg Linden - Personal Webs - Memory Prosthetic Supplement - AI Chaos - Lifestreams - Memories for Life - Strands - EAM
From the early days of computers, people have speculated that computers would be used to supplement our intelligence. Extended stores of knowledge, memories once forgotten, computational feats, and expert advice would all be at our fingertips.
In the last decades, most of the work toward this dream has been in the form of trying to build artificial intelligence. By carefully encoding expert knowledge into a refined and well-pruned database, researchers strove to build a reliable assistant to help with tasks. Sadly, this effort was always thwarted by the complexity of the system and environment, too many variables and uncertainty for any small team to fully anticipate.
Success now is coming from an entirely unexpected source, the chaos of the internet. Google has become our external brain, sifting through the extended stores of knowledge offered by multitudes, helping us remember what we once found, and locating advice from people who have been where we now go.
For example, the other day, I was trying to describe to someone how mitochondria oddly have a separate genome, but could not recall the details. A search for [mitochondria] yielded a Wikipedia page that refreshed my memory. Later, I was wondering if train or flying between Venice and Rome was a better choice; advice arrived immediately on a search for [train flying venice rome]. Recently, I had forgotten the background of a colleague, restored again with a quick search on her name. Hundreds of times a day, I access this external brain, supplementing what is lost or incomplete in my own.
This external brain is not programmed with knowledge, at least not in the sense we expected. There is no system of rules, no encoding of experts, no logical reasoning. There precious little understanding of information, at least not in the search itself. There is knowledge in the many voices that make up the data on the Web, but no synthesis of those voices.
Perhaps we should have expected this. Our brains, after all, are a controlled storm of competing patter
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NUMB3RS Gets Math Right - Mathematical Association of America - Devlin - Real Background Story - Case - Canadian PhD Help - TV
For the pilot episode, Falacci and Heuton chose a serial rape case that arose in Louisiana in the late 1990s. In that real-life case, a Canadian police detective with a Ph.D. in mathematics read about the case and wrote to the local police to offer his services. He had, he said, developed a formula to determine the likely residence location of the perpetrator, based on the pattern of locations of the crimes.
By then, the local police were willing to try anything, and so they brought the Canadian detective onto the case. What happened next will be familiar to you if you watched the first episode of NUMB3RS. The police scoured the likely residence location determined by the mathematics formula, collecting DNA samples from cigarette butts and other castaway items of all males in the area, and had those samples tested against those from the rape victims.
In the event, none of the samples collected matched, until someone wondered if the perpetrator had recently moved. (Yes, even that part of NUMB3RS was taken right from the real-life case! Why make things up when real life has all the dramatic elements you need.) Thanks to the mathematics, the (real-life) criminal - a police detective as it turned out - was caught.
The mathematical formula you see actor David Krumholtz (who plays the mathematician) write on the blackboard in his home is in fact the equation used in the real case. The other equations you see (and will see) in the series, including the water sprinkler example near the start of episode 1, were written by the series' principal mathematics advisor, Gary Lordon, the head of mathematics at Caltech, by mathematics graduate students at Caltech, and by other professional mathematicians, a great many of whom the series producers have contacted to ask for help. (They sent a representative to the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta last month, to extend their network of contacts in the profession.) So much for all those TV critics who thought the plot was too implausible!
The second episode, which was broadc
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Math Games - NUMB3RS TV Show - 2005 - Mathematical Association of India
A dedicated FBI agent, Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie Eppes, a brilliant mathematician who yearns to impress his older brother. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from very different perspectives. As a seasoned investigator, Don deals in hard facts and evidence whereas Charlie, a math professor at a California university, functions in a world of mathematical probability and equations.
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