Whisky and candlelight, consumed repeatedly over many years, involve some measure of danger. Two Dutch research projects tried to take that measure. They hoped to confront the spectre of death – to either confirm or disprove the worry that good whisky and sacred candles, singly or in combination, are very, very bad for a body…. […]
Year: 2006
Karen Bandeen-Roche joins the LFHCfS
Karen Bandeen-Roche has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Her primary research area is the development, implementation, and application of models for problems which include underlying or unobservable processes of interest. Her other areas of statistical research include the study of classification and variance structure and multivariate survival analysis. Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD, LFHCfS […]
Acoustics: headbanging, laughter, and hoarse teachers
Headline-demanding talks are the order of the day at the 152nd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Three that screech out, so to speak, for attention are: 1. “Termite Head-Banging: Sounding the Alarm,” by Tom Fink, Lichuan Gui, Yong Wang, Zhonghua Cao, Adarsh Jaiswal, Orwa Tahaineh, Vijay Ramalingam, Roger Hasse, Alan […]
Greg Phillips joins the LFHCfS
Greg Phillips has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: In celebration of the completion of my Ph.D. after twelve improbably long years, I would like to apply for membership in the LFHCfS. I am a software engineer with particular interests in software architecture, human-computer interaction, and collaborative software. The luxuriant flowing […]