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.
Month: September 2006
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 […]