Hipsters are a strange, plaid-wearing paradox: the term is meant to denote someone who's different from the norm, and yet, why do they -- in their flannel, beanies and combat boots -- all seem to look exactly alike? Jonathan Touboul, a mathematical neuroscientist at the Collège de France in Paris, explores this question in a new paper, "The Hipster Effect: When Anticonformists All Look the Same." In the study, Touboul uses many complex mathematical formulas to explain the homogenous hipster ph...
Hipsters are a strange, plaid-wearing paradox: the term is meant to denote someone who's different from the norm, and yet, why do they -- in their flannel, beanies and combat boots -- all seem to look exactly alike? Jonathan Touboul, a mathematical neuroscientist at the Collège de France in Paris, explores this question in a new paper, "The Hipster Effect: When Anticonformists All Look the Same." In the study, Touboul uses many complex mathematical formulas to explain the homogenous hipster ph...
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