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My name is Mason Porter. I am a Professor in Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) and am Professor in Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University. Previously, I was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Before that, I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College. I am still a Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College.
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- The Bacterial Call of Cthulhu
- Revisiting the Cult of Genius
- A Timeless Moral Dilemma: Saving Friends Versus Pr...
- Diego Rivera's "The Mathematician"
- What Happens in Mexico City Stays in Mexico City
- The Real Reason Brontosaurus Went Away
- In Real Life As Well, Let the Wookie Win
- The Networks Revolution is in Progress in Mathematics
- A Primer on the Origin of Mathematical Symbols
- Foaming at the Mouth: Academic Inbreeding
- A Most Excellent Welcome Back to Caltech Indeed: G...
- What Happens in Southern California Stays in South...
- "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match: Migratio...
- Tales from the ArXiv: The Cheese Flows Alone
- Font Battles and a Childhood Fascination with Fonts
- Cooking Hornets
- Bill and Ted and Their Quantum Computer
- I Want Labeled Axes!
- 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
- How Many Assholes Are There On This Paper?
- Caltech Math: Where One Goes to Learn "Topography"
- Jeffreys, Jeffreys, and Logarithms
- Thesis-like Objects
- Another Victory for The Onion: Education Edition
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- Here Comes the (Smell of) Rain Again
- A City Named "Boson"
- Omar Vizquel and Asymptotic Scaling
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About Me
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- I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UCLA. Previously, I was Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford. I was also a Tutorial Fellow in Somerville College. I am also a die-hard fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. See my website for more information about me. You can also find me on Facebook and Twitter (@masonporter), though I'm much easier to stalk by other means. If you want power law or Zachary Karate Club swag, take a look at my Power Law Shop. I am also involved with the Legends of Caltech movie and co-edited Legends of Caltech III.
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The Oatmeal covered this a while back:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets
Keep up on your webcomics, man! :-D
It's true that I am not up on my webcomics. The text in my link corresponds rather closely to that in the webcomic, so I think the writer of that piece is up on them...
The temperature that the Japanese honeybees can withstand does seem to have been downgraded a bit, however. (The one in the Oatmeal --- which provides a bit larger gap --- seems a bit more plausible to me, given the presumed noise across individuals.)
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