Jonathan Touboul is a French mathematician and neuroscientist who typically publishes papers with titles like “Pulsatile localized dynamics in delayed neural-field equations in arbitrary dimension” ...

It's a running joke that male hipsters all look alike with their flannel shirts, thick beards and other seemingly off-brand attributes. But a comical incident in the MIT Technology Review might just ...

Gideon Lichfield of the MIT Technology Review talks about how a man blasted the publication for using a photo of him in a story about how all hipsters look the same, but it was someone else. Imagine a ...

Have you ever wondered why all the bearded, flannel-wearing hipsters look exactly the same (despite thinking they’re so unique)? Well, there is a mathematical reason why all hipsters look the same, ...

A man threatened legal action after "his" photo was used to illustrate a story about how all hipsters look the same. Too bad It's not him. Getty Images This wannabe rebel has been busted in his own ...

Do all hipsters look the same? A new article in the MIT Technology Review suggests yes, and a man's angry response to his purported photo with the story all but proves it. The "hipster effect," as ...

Why do all hipsters look the same? This is a question anyone scrolling through Instagram has probably asked themselves, at least three times a day. Now, it appears, math has an answer to the ...

From Maboneng in Johannesburg to Bandra in Mumbai, Neukölln in Berlin to Gulou in Beijing, and Crown Heights in Brooklyn to Hackney in London, hipsters are everywhere. Their distinctive look -- ...

You can spot a nonconformist a mile away. Because they all look alike. Just ask mathematician Jonathan Touboul, an associate professor at Brandeis University. Like the rest of us, Touboul has noticed ...

An irate, bearded man threatened to sue the MIT Technology Review this week after he read an article on their website called "The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same." ...

MIT's online magazine suggested hipsters look alike. The New York Daily News reports one man demanded his photo be removed from the article. Turns out, it wasn't him — proving hipsters look alike.

Why do all hipsters look the same? This is a question anyone scrolling through Instagram has probably asked themselves, at least three times a day. Now, it appears, math has an answer to the ...