: The Davenport Conspiracy . Marshall McKusick.

Review of The Grant Oneota Village by Marshall McKusick

On the Davenport-Mahler bound

We prove that the Davenport-Mahler bound holds for arbitrary graphs with vertices on the set of roots of a given univariate polynomial with complex coefficients. Introduction The Davenport-Mahler bound is a lower bound for the product of the lengths of the edges on a graph whose vertices are the complex roots of a given univariate polynomial P ∈ C[X], under certain assumptions. Its origins are ...

Harold Davenport

Harold Davenport's father, Percy Davenport, worked in the office of Perseverance Mill, a cotton mill in Huncoat, near Accrington. At first a clerk, he became the company secretary. He married Nancy Barnes, one of the daughters of John Barnes, the owner of the mill. Their first child, Harold, was born on the 30th October, 1907, their only other child Grace was born a few years later. When 10 or ...

Smart Sugar? The Sugar Conspiracy

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

What psychological factors drive the popularity of conspiracy theories, which explain important events as secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups? What are the psychological consequences of adopting these theories? We review the current research and find that it answers the first of these questions more thoroughly than the second. Belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by mot...