Thousands of songs, poems, novels and movies explore the link between obsession, compulsion and romantic love. So, too, does at least one published scientific study. Donatella Marazziti, Alessandra Rossi and Giovanni B Cassano of the University of Pisa, and Hagop S Akiskal, of the University of California San Diego, undertook the first thorough biochemical investigation […]
Month: November 2007
Gaap!
Wolter Seuntjens, the world’s best-known and perhaps most philosophically-dedicated scholar on yawning, has a new book out. It’s called Gaap! The title, like the book, is in Dutch. An interview with the author, on the Dutch television program De Wereld Draait Door, is also in Dutch. Click here to see and hear it (the interview […]
Group photo experiment at Imperial College
These five photographs (below) are the results from an experiment performed November 26 at Imperial College London. 2006 Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize co-winner Piers Barnes was a featured lecturer at the evening’s special Improbable Research event. Dr. Barnes described his Ig-winning research — the calculation of how many photos one must take of a group […]
The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale
If you know nothing else about the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, you should know this: The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale includes a 13-item shyness scale and a 20-item shyness scale. The original, unrevised Shyness Scale includes a 9- item shyness scale. It, the original, was devised by J.M. Cheek and A.H. […]