The psychology of particular crowds — especially the repeated emergence of irrepressible repressed patterns — is on display in Gary Carstensen‘s sped-up video: This is one week of activity of my game called “steal” where anonymous users are free to arrange the balls. Sometimes the users coordinate to make shapes, symbols, and words. Every second […]
Month: May 2009
Glamorous Ig winner featured in GQ
Eric Topol, lead author in the (approximately) 976-co-author team that won the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature, gets cozy (and gets to be gotten cozy) with Sheryl Crowe and other rock stars in the June 2009 issue of the gentlemen’s magazine GQ. A May 28 report in The Scientist explains: Researcher Razzle Dazzle Biomedical […]
A preventive approach to family life
Society can assume a more pro-health and preventive approach to family life. So say Doris K. Williams and Bettye M. Caldwell on page 157 of Handbook for Involving Parents in Education, published by Humanics Publishing Group, 1985, ISBN 0893340847.
Cat food, dog food, and thou
Pet food taste-testing by humans rose to a new level of formality this year, with the publication of two scholarly studies. A paper called Optimising the Sensory Characteristics and Acceptance of Canned Cat Food: Use of a Human Taste Panel appeared in February. Its author, Professor GJ Pickering, of Brock University in St Catharines, Ontario, […]