We Are Happy - AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS

This came across my social media world today:

"AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE TO PHARRELL WILLIAMS, WE ARE FROM L.A. - CLÉMENT DUROU & PIERRE DUPAQUIER, FOR THEIR WORLDWIDE CONTAGIOUS HAPPINESS..."

We Are Happy Map of Videos - a map is a graph - enjoy!

Here's the one we looked at

Mathematicians, the unsung heroes of research from The Age, in Melbourne

Hello to all reading this blog. I try to read my local paper from Melbourne as often as I can and the other day there was an interesting article about the amazing research that mathematicians do.

They aren't racing through ten problems to check the answers, they are problem solvers working on long tasks checking and reflecting on their work as they go.

Please enjoy this article by Andi Horvath about

Mathematicians, the unsung heroes of research

Babies named Cheese and a graph

"(b) The correct number of babies who should be named Cheese is zero. "

An interesting little piece on babies named Cheese.

Zombies and Relationships - will they last?

In MYP5 we are looking at the mathematical modelling of a Zombie Apocalypse and my sister, Michelle Griffin, posted this in facebook today

Charting 20 Years of Pop-Culture Witches, Zombies, and Vampires from Vulture (a very good read indeed)




And she also posted this very cool statistical study on relationships and predicting their outcomes (stay together or ...).

"It’s not in the stars after all. Instead, it seems, the shape of a person’s social network is a powerful signal that can identify one’s spouse or romantic partner — and even if a relationship is likely to break up"

Here is the fascinating article about it from the New York Times

Cameron Marlow/FacebookA graphical representation of one person’s network neighborhood on Facebook.