Huber, Ludwig. Romper la Mano

Review of Evolution and Cognition, edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber

Mano River Union E-Clustering

This essay examines the tenuous state of the Mano River Union (MRU) and suggests how Eclustering can be employed to reinvigorate the association. The MRU is a regional association established between Liberia and Sierra Leone in 1973. Guinea joined the association in 1980. The goal of the Union was to foster economic cooperation among the three neighboring countries. It is named after the Mano R...

Social-demographics, health behaviors, and telomere length in the Mexican American Mano a Mano Cohort

In the current study, we examined cross-sectional associations among social-demographics, lifestyle behaviors, and relative telomere length (RTL) in peripheral blood leukocytes, as well as longitudinal relationships among major chronic diseases, weight gain, and RTL, among 12,792 Mexican Americans aged 20 to 85 years in the Mano-A-Mano, the Mexican American Cohort. As expected, RTL was inversel...

Martina Huber KTH report

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...