Josep-Llu?s Marzo-L?zaro is a member of the Grup de Broadband Comunications. His photograph indicates that he is especially well suited to work in broadband. See the photo here.
Month: August 2004
Analtech. The logical choice.
The company is named Analtech. Their slogan, displayed on their web site, is “Welcome to Analtech. The logical choice.” We would be interested in hearing from a professional logician who can supply a formal mathematical proof of this.
Do Chopsticks Cause Disease?
A fear is (apparently) laid to rest: Does using chopsticks cause disease? The answer is in this report: “Use of chopsticks for eating and Helicobacter pylori infection,” W. K. Leung., J. Y. Sung., T. K. W. Ling., K. L. K. Siu and A. F. B. Cheng, Dig Dis Sci 44, 1999, pp. 1173-6. See co-author […]
The Animal and the Damage Done
Archaeologists know that the ground they examine can be literally rather shifty. The reasons for this can be disturbing, beastly and even childish…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.
Tornado Fighters
Tornado Fighters is here to be a protection against tornados So says their web site, which is here. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.)
Forensic-chemical analysis of duct tape
J.J. Schmitz, R.A. Pribush, R.P. Walson, Chemistry Department, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, ?A Forensic-Chemical Analysis of Duct Tape? Such was the most-publicized presentation at the SCANNING 2004 Conference, which was held on April 28, 2004. For bare details, see here.
All-Purpose Press Release
The July/August 2004 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research includes an all-purpose press release. We have put it online: “A Template for Scientific Press Releases and Science News Articles,” by Scott A. Sandford, Jason P. Dworkin and Max P. Bernstein.
Death Stinks
Investigator Genevieve Reynolds sends in support for the notion that, sometimes, death stinks. See here.
Trinkaus on Trolleys
Shopping trolleys are a window, however small, to our inner being…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. It describes the latest research from 2003 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner John Trinkaus. Read the column here.
Nothing But
The world’s vast collection of research journals contain many reports about positive results that turn out, later, to be simply not so. A small number of journals work hard to publish results that are, from the beginning, apparently not so. Here are two such journals. The Journal of Negative Results website is here. The Journal […]