If you are (A) a scientist who (B) follows a good ritual for preparing either tea or coffee and you (C) are in Britain or (D) will be in Britain during the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK during March, and (E) you would enjoy BRIEFLY demonstrating that ritual onstage at one of the shows […]
Month: February 2005
A useful supplier?
Look at this uranium web site, suggested investigator John Bell, and check out the photo at the bottom of the page. We followed his suggestion.
The author’s heavy hand
According a Canadian press report: Margaret Atwood, author of futuristic fantasies The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake, has invented a prototype remote autographing device that has the potential to revolutionize book signings. (Thanks to investigator Genevieve Reynolds for bringing this to our attention.)
How to fix a biologist
Do you, a biologist, feel intimidated by how complex everything is? Try reading Yuri Lazebnik‘s essay " Can a biologist fix a radio? –Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis," which was originally published in the journal Cancer Cell (vol. 2, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 179-82). (Thanks to Karen Hopkin for bringing this to […]