{"id":1494,"date":"2015-12-25T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T12:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-09-22T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:58:07","slug":"christmas-2015-the-advent-calendar-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/christmas-2015-the-advent-calendar-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2015: Advent calendar of research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the run up to Christmas I have been posting each day that is (loosely) related to Research and Knowledge Exchange, and is also Christmas related.<\/p>\n

I thought it worthwhile just summarsing them here so that you can take a look at them from from one easily accessible place.<\/p>\n

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  1. Deck the halls with research stories<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Christmas Present Problem: It\u2019s Hard \u2013 NP-Hard<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Packing Santa\u2019s Sleigh<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. How will Santa deliver all those presents this Christmas?<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. The 12 days of Pascal\u2019s triangular Christmas<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Brian Cox: Can Santa travel faster than the speed of light?<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Five tricks retailers will use to make you shop this Christmas<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Problems with your wi-fi? It could be your Christmas lights!<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Santa is really a Travelling Salesman<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. How do Christmas TV adverts keep your attention<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Have a go at solving this Christmas cryptographic problem<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. How does electricity usage change on Christmas day?<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Is your oven big enough for the turkey<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. How will (retail) Christmas compare to 2014?<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Should shops open on Christmas day?<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Could your Christmas decorations be a hazard to planes?<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. How Christmas lights helped guerrillas put down their guns<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Program your own Christmas Tree<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Festive spices and their intoxicating history<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. What makes a Christmas gift good?<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. The appeal of the Christmas song<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Buying Christmas presents is a real dilemma<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Wisdom of the Crowds at the Graduate School Christmas Party<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the run up to Christmas I have been posting each day that is (loosely) related to Research and Knowledge Exchange, and is also Christmas related. I thought it worthwhile just summarsing them here so that you can take a look at them from from one easily accessible place. Deck the halls with research stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,159,54,5,15,18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-christmas","category-mathematics","category-operations-research","category-prediction","category-supermarkets","category-vehicle-routing-problem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}