Ever used the word "snowcrie"? I doubt it. In fact, "snowcrie" doesn't even have a definition. As far as we know, according to the Oxford English Dictionary it was a typo of sorts. It occurred in 1402 ...

One of the surprising things about the over-valuation of Facebook in its IPO is how the rationalization for the $104 billion seems to have been based on some varient of Metcalfe's law of network ...

In every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent word. This phenomenon called ‘Zipf’s law’ is more than one century old, but until now, scientists have not ...

Megan Leveille and Sean Roark agree they were taking a chance in 2005 when they and their fellow jurors gave Breanna Zipf a break. Now they agree that she should go to prison. Leveille and Roark ...

George K. Zipf '23, University Lecturer, died Monday evening at his home in Newton. He had been ill for about three months. He was 48. Zipf was known particularly for his statistical treatment of the ...