Does the brain really operate like some kind of extra-complex computer, with logic gates and circuits made of the synapses that connect one neuron to another?
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This week's new Weizmann science stories are on ants and bats. Two different models for investigating human behavior? Yes, but not exactly in the ways you might imagine, and so much more than that.
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The math at the basis of information theory could help explain systems like ocean waves
One summer afternoon over twenty years ago, Prof. Gregory Falkovich and his five-year-old son were bathing amidst gentle ripples in shallow ocean waters near Los Angeles, when they were suddenly knocked over by an unexpectedly tall wave, some ten feet high. Though the two were unhurt, Falkovich was understandably shaken, not least because the mass of water had washed away the glasses he needed for the drive back to hotel. But he was also fascinated: A personal encounter with the rare phenomenon known as a rogue, or freak, wave reminded him of the extent to which its origins remain mysterious.