Layla Gordon has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I hold a BSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from University of Southampton. I currently work as a research scientist in Ordnance Survey Research Labs in UK. And studying PHD in Computer science in the field of Multi-Agent technology. I previously […]
Month: April 2007
The healthiness of unmanned-aircraft pilots
Regarding the risk of pilot incapacitation, at least a few factors distinguish this risk from manned aircraft…. The first topic discussed was whether the agency should create a new medical certification category for UA pilots or use an existing certification. The rapid consensus by the group was that the creation of a new certification would […]
Ribena: C and tooth kind
Schoolgirls celebrities after exposing Ribena Two Kiwi schoolgirls are worldwide celebrities after their school experiment forced an international pharmaceutical and food giant to admit it made false claims about vitamin C levels in Ribena. GlaxoSmithKline, the second-largest food and drug company in the world, was yesterday fined $217,500 in the Auckland District Court after it […]
Dr. Fingernails
Instrumented scissors, used to cut fingernails in different directions, show that fingernails are twice as difficult to cut towards the base of the nail as across it. Consequently cracks are deflected around the end of the nail, protecting the nail bed from damage. So writes Dr. Roland Ennos of the University of Manchester, in describing […]
April mini-AIR
The April issue of mini-AIR just went out. It discusses what’s up with macaques; Lu Lu; Theoharis Theoharis; the New Head Hypothesis poet deficit; Orienteer-Trampling; the general’s kisses; Vaporizing; Coin Odor; Minute Men; and other things.(If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, please subscribe to it. It?s […]
Bureaucracy Club: On-paper excellence endures 28 years
Marilee Jones, MIT’s dean of admissions who has spoken out nationally against the craze over beefing up teens’ resumes, has resigned after 28 years at the school for misrepresenting her academic degrees, university officials said today. Jones listed on her resume that she had degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, […]
Icky, picky (tasty tarantula)
Here are some research reports that are icky, or cutesy, or both…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Malaria Awareness Day
Today is Malaria Awareness Day, according to US President George W. Bush.
The ceiling and the professor
[Despite] anecdotal evidence that ceiling height exerts a critical influence on consumers, we were unable to uncover any theory or research that explains how, when, and why ceiling height might exert an effect. This paper seeks to address this issue by investigating the thesis that ceiling height may affect the very manner in which consumers […]
Gnome news
Police have served Mr MacKillop with a notice for “placing a garden gnome with intent to cause harassment”. Mr MacKillop, 46, was woken in the night by two officers who warned him that the gnome was offensive to his neighbours. So says a September 9, 2006 BBC report. A woman is facing jail after running […]