Martin Schiavenato has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I do pediatric pain research, particularly facial expressions and their role in the communication of pain. This partially explains my inability to form a decent smile; too self-conscious. Also, I have a rather inborn inability to form a decent smile. Alas, I […]
Month: March 2008
Puzzling Solutions
Solution to Last Month?s Puzzler Once you have completed the instructions given in the puzzler, it is a simple matter to complete the transformation of Robert Hooke?s drawing of a flea into a working replica of James Watt?s steam engine. (That?s an excerpt from the article ?Puzzling Solutions,? published in AIR 14:1.)
Social scientists alert: Gather that data!
It’s shameful when valuable data goes unused, especially when that data was produced at great public expense. In October of the year 2000, we presented an Ig Nobel Prize to the authors of a study called “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments“. Almost exactly a […]
?After all, aren?t we all a hypoteneuse??
David Weinberger reviews a popular Copanhagic play about physicists: We saw Michael Frayn?s Tony-award-winning play, ?Copenhagen,? last night. Disappointing. It?s about the mysterious meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in 1941 in Newark, NJ. (Nope. In Copenhagen. Just kidding. Haha.) The play goes over various ?drafts? of the meeting, trying out possible explanations of why Heisenberg, […]