20% of the church-going female participants struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis. So says an August 7, 2006 press release from ChristiaNet.com, which describes itself as “the world’s most visited Christian website.” Boasting the headline “ChristiaNet Poll Finds That Evangelicals Are Addicted to Porn,” the press release discusses vice-grip clutches.
Month: August 2006
Not just a name
Professor-professors are professors whose first and last names are identical. Here are some of the professor-professors who are currently making a name for themselves…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Zimbardo’s favorite rat
Researchers who study rat behavior sometimes come to love their furry colleagues. This photograph shows Philip Zimbardo with one of his rats in the 1950s. Zimbardo went on to world renown. His “Stanford Prison Experiment” is one of the great achievements in the field of psychology. Zimabardo also won the 2003 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize […]
A mom who values math
An eminent mathematics professor writes: The following is true. Only the arithmetic has been changed. I don’t deal with soccer moms. I teach math in college. I get to deal with algebra moms. “Look at all the work she did. Why didn’t you give her any points!” This was not meant as a question. “It’s […]
DuRant raves about wrestling
“This study has tremendous implications,” said Robert H. DuRant, professor and vice chair of pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and an author of the study. So says an April 2001 press release reported by many press outlets, some giving it the headline “Watching Wrestling Positively Associated with Date Fighting.” According to the […]
Fish soccer
Train a fish to play soccer or jump through hoops? Dean and Kyle Pomerleau suggest how to do it, and they’ve got videos. (Note: Others have tried — without much success — to link fish and soccer medically.)
Saving face: The case of P. Hilton
Paris Hilton‘s facial expression doesn’t change, according to pictorial evidence amassed by some fairly anonymous researcher.
Atom & Eve webcast FRIDAY from Alpach
On Friday (August 25, 2006) watch the webcast of the mini-opera “Atom and Eve” live from the Alpbach Technology Forum in Alpbach, Austria. To see the webcast, click on one of these links: in German in English It begins at 7:00 pm, Austria time (6:00 pm in London; 1:00 pm in New York; 10 am […]
Lee’s Toxic Shocks
Alexander Tse-Yan Lee – or, as he generally identifies himself, Alexander Tse-Yan Lee, B H Sci; Dip Prof Counsel; MAIPC; Maca – has been in the news lately, albeit tangentially. The internet has been a-twitter with fleeting mentions of Dr. Lee’s study called Hair Soy Sauce: A Revolting Alternative to the Conventional. Published in the […]
Almost-universal formula
Consider the following statement, which appears in a June 2, 2006 BBC report: “As psychologist Ilona Boniwell of Oxford Brookes University points out in her article, the formula fails to take account of contentment.” Why is the statement remarkable? Because it can be applied to nearly every formula, mathematical or otherwise. (Thanks to investigator Scott […]