Researching the behavioural patterns of people when using revolving doors Tomorrow, Thursday March 23, TU Delft Civil Engineering student Ramon Landman will record the behavioural patterns of people when using a revolving door. So begins a March 22, 2006 press release issued by the Delft University of Technology. (Thanks to Rik Kuiper for bringing this […]
Month: October 2006
Cranky Mallow on plutonium
Physicist Jeffry Mallow, of Loyola University Chicago, sent us a crank(y) letter about Pluto and plutonium. (To read it, click on the link).
Clinton Epps joins the LFHCfS
Clinton Epps has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Dr. Lauren Gwin, who nominated him, says: In this photo, Clint is removing, with a lighter-sterilized Swiss Army Knife (and while wearing surgical gloves, purchased for genetic labwork), the eggs of a parasitic flea (“funza” in Swahili) from my foot (I am his wife, […]
Kuti for youth
Kenya is a carefully-engineered fountain of youth, and the engineer is named Muhammad (or perhaps Mohamed) Kuti. So imply a pair of news reports. An October 11 Reuters article explains that: If you believe you are only as young as you feel, maybe you should be living in Kenya. A government minister has proposed changing […]