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...team—which sought to apply quantitative methods to describe the beaks in a more mathematical way—conducted analysis that consisted of quantitative comparisons of the shapes of different species’ beaks, according to Otger Campàs-Rigau, a postdoctoral fellow in applied math specializing in morphogenesis, or the process by which an organism’s shape is determined...
...It’s a huge honor,” said Lieberman-Aiden, a graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology who also studies applied math at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...addition to studying applied math, Lieberman-Aiden has also worked in the fields of evolutionary linguistics, biotechnology, and sensor technology...
...always been split-brained. I’ve liked business and math stuff just as much as I’ve loved creative stuff, so producing is a nice marriage of the business and creative sides...
That down-to-earth attitude is the product of Kitano's working-class background. A childhood math whiz and boxer (embodying the combination of brains and brawn for which his films are famous), he dropped out of university, eventually becoming a comic and actor. He began directing films in 1989, attributing his ensuing success as a filmmaker to what he saw as a "lack of self-discipline" in the Japanese film industry. "That has led them to suffer from [a director] like myself," he says, "a complete outsider." He applies similar self-deprecation to his painting. When he took...