“Come and find your (love) story”.

Find your element.

Thank you, Jeff Riley, for the kind introduction. It was deeply moving to hear your summary of my career and see the choice photographs that you obtained from my wife, Holly, and daughter, Hannah. It is true that there are few photographs of me from the ages of 2–8 years when I did not have a gun in my hand. It was my dream to someday become a cowboy, but I am not disappointed about the way thi...

Privacy and Markets: A Love Story

Humus and time: a love story

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Layla and Majnun: a complex love story

Following previous work, this paper introduces a new dynamical model involving two differential equations describing the time variation of behavior displayed by a couple in a romantic relationship. This model is different from previous ones because it uses complex variables. Since complex variables have both magnitude and phase, they are better able to represent love and can represent more comp...

Your Brain and Its Story

The curiosity aroused in most people by the sight of a human brain delivered from its covering membranes is often damped by the intellectual effort required to understand the complicated architecture of this amazing machine. Many anatomists have tried to tell its story simply in books designed for the lay public. Professor Berry, unlike some others, has been at great pains to make his design su...