Emily Belzer has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I just started as a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute’s Applied Physics division in San Antonio. This picture of my hair particularly highlights its flowing nature. I hope to have a better picture in the future, but for now, here this […]
Month: October 2006
October mini-AIR
The October issue of mini-AIR just went out. It features the Ig Nobel Prize winners, two new professor-professors, the sausage limerick winner, a bit of explanation of why this web site was behaving strangely the past few days, and other things.(If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, […]
Left/Right: On which side lies the truth?
On which side lies the truth? It’s on the left, according to a 1993 study published in the journal Neuropsychologia. The left ear, this study says, is better than the right ear at discerning truth. Slightly better. In most people. Some of the time. The report is called Hemispheric Asymmetry for the Auditory Recognition of […]
What came out of his ear
“If ever there were a reason not to work alone in lab, this is it. I was standing in front of the rotovap watching the toluene crawl over, ie watching paint dry, when I started idly picking my ear. A huge chunk of wax came out. I stared at the gooey mass and wondered to […]