Book Review: Inside “Inside Jokes”: The Hidden Side of Humor

Book review The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes

Graeme Ritchie’s book is definitely a learning experience. Reader-friendly, written in a lucid style, and yet rigorous in argumentation, it is a pleasure to read. Ritchie takes his readers on a tour of selected sights of the complex world of humor research and shows them his perception of things: this is the perspective of a formal linguist, who spent most of his professional life dealing with ...

Discovery of Hidden Blazars inside Quasars

Inside: The Year in Review

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Spin exciton formation inside the hidden order phase of CeB6.

The heavy fermion metal CeB(6) exhibits a hidden order of the antiferroquadrupolar (AFQ) type below T(Q)=3.2 K and a subsequent antiferromagnetic (AFM) order at T(N)=2.3 K. It was interpreted as an ordering of the quadrupole and dipole moments of a Γ(8) quartet of localized Ce 4f(1) electrons. This established picture has been profoundly shaken by recent inelastic neutron scattering (G. Friemel...

The number system hidden inside the Boolean satisfiability problem

The Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem is the first known example of an NPcomplete problem, and thousands of NP-compete problems have been identified by reducing the SAT to the problems. Researchers have tried to find a definite mathematical expression that distinguishes among NL-complete, P-complete, and NPcomplete problems such as 2-SAT, Horn-SAT, and 3-SAT. In this paper, we introduce the ...