Toy Story: Childhood versus Children in Toy Museums

The Making of Toy Story

Toy Story is the first full length feature film produced entirely using the technology of computer animation. The main characters, Sheriff Woody and Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear; are toys that come to life when humans aren’t around. Their story is one of rivalry challenges, teamwork

From Toy Story to Toy History: a deep analysis of Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian operating system is one of the more popular GNU/Linux distributions today. From its birth, one decade ago, it has undergone many technical, structural and organizational changes. This article tries to study the evolution of Debian in the last five years, comparing the last the four stable versions of this distribution in size, programming languages and packages. Also the evolution of...

Toy story: why do monkey and human males prefer trucks? Comment on "Sex differences in rhesus monkey toy preferences parallel those of children" by Hassett, Siebert and Wallen.

Parents of young children will tell you that boys like different toys than girls; they are intrigued by Bob the Builder, Transformers of all kinds, trucks, police cars, front loaders, bikes, skate boards, and wagons. Girls too like bikes, cars and Legos, but also play with stuffed animals and dolls, toys that boys find less appealing for active play. Is this difference in toy preference due exc...

Far From Toy Trains

Toy Models for Retrocausality

A number of writers have been attracted to the idea that some of the peculiarities ofquantum theory might be manifestations of ‘backward’ or ‘retro’ causality, underlying thequantum description. This idea has been explored in the literature in two main ways:firstly in a variety of explicit models of quantum systems, and secondly at a concep-tual level. This note introduces a...