Yesterday was molecular-dancing video day. Today, more or less for Halloween, it’s physics gravelly-voice video day, with this curious offering from UMass-Lowell: (Thanks to investigators Raj Prasad and Stanley Eigen for bringing this to our attention.)
Month: October 2009
Ig Nobel Prize winner: $711 million
Sanford (“Spamford”) Wallace, winner of the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for communications (“neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night have stayed this self-appointed courier from delivering electronic junk mail to all the world”), is in the news again. Reuters reports, on October 30, 2009 that: Facebook gets $711 million damages in anti-spam case Social […]
Molecular dances, personified
Actors become molecules in a video produced by (or maybe for) the Marie Curie Actions project of the European Commission. (Thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing this to our attention.)
Criminals hordes want to work at U Akron?
The University of Akron is overwhelmed with criminals who seek employment there. That, anyway, seems a reasonable way to interpret the news reported by InsideHigherEd, which says: Many colleges now require criminal background checks of all new employees. But the University of Akron — in what some experts believe is a first — is not […]