Using sensors in underwear, scientists can accurately zero in on small everyday tasks. That statement appears in a February 27, 2006 article in the Los Angeles Times. (Thanks to Investigator Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.)
Month: February 2006
Heads-up cornrow computation
A tonsorial fashion analyzed (two aspects): (1) transformational geometry and iteration in cornrow hair styles; and (2) logarithmic curves in cornrow hairstyles. Thanks to Investigators Larissa and Bob Reeve for bringing this and their own cornrows to our attention.)
“What’s the matter with kids today?”
In the United States, a country where everyone has a nodding acquaintance with learning, a prominent education thinker tried a daring experiment. Steve Nadis explains: I always felt that kids who are cut off from television are kind of out of it in a quaint, Amish sort of way. Which is why I’ve trained my […]
Lie detectors for everyone
Lots of people, not just U.S. government employees, are having profitable fun talking about lie detectors. Alice Shirrell Kaswell of our staff reports that intrepid inventor and scientific superman Britton Chance is working on one. In an article in OE Magazine, he describes his hand-held cogno-sensor. He also describes himself, with characteristic modesty: Sitting in […]
Saw not the wiener
There exists a video of a kinder, gentler table saw and a hot dog. Note that you have to replace the blade and the brake cartridge whenever it is set off. (Thanks to Investigator Mark Dionne for bringing the note, if not the hotdog or the saw, to our attention.)
The FBI: Detecting Deception
What do Joe Navarro, M.A., and John R. Schafer, M.A. say the FBI says about detecting that hard-to-define thing called deception? It’s a long story, and it’s in the July 2001 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. The fundamental thing, the possible key to it all, they imply, is this: When individuals tell the truth, they often […]
Organic Chinese food (unhung)
Investigator Gary Dryfoos identifies a new trend in organic food, commenting “I have absolutely nothing to add to this, except perhaps extra sauce.” Details are in a February 17, 2006 in The Telegraph: On the menu today: horse penis and testicles with a chilli dip The menu at Beijing’s latest venue for its growing army […]
A super-intellectual challenge
Investigator Ian Davis writes [from Melbourne, Australia]: I don’t think I even begin to understand the full import of this editorial, let alone the article, but can anyone argue with my conclusion that God must have a great sense of humor? As if the giraffe and the platypus were not proof enough. The editorial [or […]
Roundabout water
An Australian firm which is said to be located in Chatswood, New South Wales, and which may be called “O18”, and which perhaps exists, advertises a triumph of reverse engineering: CHILLED DRINKING WATER O18 uses our award winning ‘pressure chilling’ to extract the purest water from Australian fruit. Every drop is filtered through fruit — […]
Estimating: the leaden sparrow
Kees Moeliker, our European Bureau Chief, reports the latest about leaden sparrow research. (This is related only distantly to Jonathan Corum’s Python-inspired reseach report “Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow.”) Moeliker writes: Ramallah, a city on the West Bank (Palestinian Authority) known best from the Israel-Palestinian conflict, was also the study area of […]