Welcome to Alex Bäcker's wiki.

Who Alex Bäcker, Ph.D., is- Olympic Champion, MIT/Caltech/DOE scientist & inventor, Founder of abInventio, the invention factory, Whozat & QLess
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Recent favorite posts:
Recent posts with the highest number of pageviews:
The Evolution of Humor
Mathematics, Language, Poetry and Music: A Continuum
Airplanes that board as fast as trains
The Paradox of Monogamy
My readers' all-time favorite posts:
These are posts that 100% of readers found engaging enough that they kept reading afterwards:
9 women cannot make a baby in 1 month
A Unified Theory of Biodiversity
A Better Democracy
Babies do not learn by imitation
Don't Quit
The effect of shared vulnerabilities on the survival of complex systems
The Fear Factor
Why Babies Like to be Rocked to Sleep
Some of my most thought-provoking posts:
These are posts that readers spent an average of more than 5 minutes reading:
On the valuation of private company securities
Why Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny
The Selective Advantage of Aging
Which CTR does Google Adwords use to determine AdRank
Self-organizing Government
Some of my most popular posts:
CV
Scientific publications: 1994-2005 2005-
Origin of Silent Letters
Why the Sex Ratio is 1
On Profit Maximization as the Social Responsibility of Business
How To Start a Company
On Venture Capitalists
Smart people should work in start-ups
Best of 2006
Best of 2007
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Why this wiki was started
Why a wiki instead of a blog
The ab|inventio™ Gazette: The latest scoop from The Invention Factory™
Alex's Caltech Home Page
You may contact Alex at alex
caltech.edu .
Whozat?
QLess Virtual lines: waiting in line sucks
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