Investigator Miriam Strauss, who is a high school senior in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA writes: College brochures! You flip through glossy pages with large quotes from former students about the lifelong friendships they?ve formed and the exciting research they?ve completed. Students and professors, according to their school?s advertisement, form such close relationships because of the small […]
Month: September 2006
Missing Mel
Mel Schwartz died this week, and we miss him. Mel was, among many other things, a founding member of the Improbable Research editorial board. A man of big personality, he loved doing small-scale physics experiments. Click here to see a characteristic interview with Mel.
Something on the brain
Marco Iacoboni is ushering in a golden age of brain interpretation. He writes, in Edge: We have now completed our analyses on the fMRI data from five healthy volunteers that were studied last night at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center while they were watching Super Bowl ads. We tested a total of 24 ads, 21 […]
Atom & Eve Alpach video is online
The Austrian premiere of the romantic mini-opera “Atom & Eve” (and the entire Improbable Research show of which it was the highlight) is now online. The event occurred on Friday night, August 25, 2006, at the Alpbach Technology Forum in Alpbach, Austria. The mini-opera starred Frank Wilczek and Diane Shooman. (The image here shows the […]
Triple-Makhlouf?
In regards to your column about professor-professors, Makhlouf Makhlouf is actually rumored to be Makhlouf Makhlouf Makhlouf, since his middle initial is M. I have had him as a professor, but I’m to scared to ask. Jocelyn Lally WPI BS ME 2005 MS ME 2007 So says the note we received. At least one piece […]