Can computers determine the truth or falsity of your opinion about George W. Bush? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security hopes so, according to a September 22, 2006 press release from Cornell University: Sorting facts and opinions for Homeland Security What are newspapers around the world saying about the latest speech by President George W. […]
Month: September 2006
The man who loves lizards
A man who may be named Henry industriously photographs lizards. (Thanks to investigator Betsy Devine for bringing this to our attention.)
De Jonckheere’s mail female experiment
I have read with great interest Jeff Van Bueren’s research (“Postal Research,” AIR, vol. 6, no. 4, 2000) about things that go through the mail. In 1990, I had done an experiment which goes to prove that your research is exact, a lot of things get through the mail. So writes investigator Philippe De Jonckheere.
Breath-taking: Cigars
From a chewing-gum manufacturing colossus comes a breakthrough scientific study called Components Responsible for the Odour of Cigar Smokers’ Breath. Wrigley researchers Russell Bazemore, Charles Harrison and Michael Greenberg tell all, in five pages of tiny print in the American Chemical Society’s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. This was one of the last scientific […]
Escher’s “Relativity” in Legos
“Daniel Shiu and I worked on this as a joint project after we finished our rendition of Escher’s ‘Ascending and Descending’, making it our fourth Escher picture rendered in LEGO. Once again, no camera tricks, but the picture has to be taken from exactly the right place, and boy did we get tired of trying […]
A look back at Betty and Barney
45 years ago today … Aliens made them famous On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were heading home to Portsmouth when they encountered aliens — or so they believed. Whether true or not, their story catapulted them into national celebrity…. The 1961 case of Betty and Barney Hill was the nation’s first bona […]
When can you divide by zero?
We have long had a rule in mathematics about dividing by zero. The rule is: You cannot divide any number by zero. I have just seen evidence that the rule has an exception. My nine-year-old daughter is learning division in school, so I bought some flash cards to help her. The set I got is […]
Ethics rock
Lawyers who want or need to keep up with their profession can take a course offered by Virginia Continuing Legal Education: Ethics Rock!, Featuring Jack Marshall MCLE Credits: 4.0 Ethics Credits Included: 4.0 Register for this course A Live Legal Ethics Program Performed to the Tunes of ’60s Rock and Roll There are no CLE […]
What you need to know?
When you buy a manufactured product, do you need to know how the manufacturer responds when people report problems? Here’s how the National Association of Manufacturers responds to a problem: What you need to know is that there is no consensus about global warming, contrary to the oft-repeated canard that there is. What you need […]
The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar
The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar is more or less what its name describes. (Thanks to investigator Alison Brown for bringing this to our attention.)