Modeled by physcists: "Here a toy model is used to understand a puzzling phenomenon from the sport of track and field. Races are almost always won, and records set, in 400 m and 800 m running events by people who run the first half of the race faster than the second half, which is not true of shorter races, nor of longer."
Fascinating. Where do you find this stuff?
ReplyDeleteThis one I found through arXiv's technology review blog, http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/ (didn't give a H/T because I don't think they would care). Sweat Science which I have in my blogroll is also a great one.
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