Arpiar Saunders has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: Based on the simple fact that one can be both dirty and sterile, my biologist friends and I have cultivated a lifestyle of “cleansgusting”. Pushing this envelope, more than once I’ve had to throw out otherwise good reactions because of obvious contamination […]
Year: 2006
Not scaly enough?
In an article published this week in the prestigious science journal Nature, two physicists contend that a method intended to identify complex geometric patterns in the seemingly chaotic drip paintings of Jackson Pollock is flawed and may be useless in the increasingly convoluted world of authenticating Pollock?s work…. The two researchers conclude that Dr. Taylor?s […]
The pigeon and the PC monitor
Investigator Fiona Campbell points us to the BioMotion Lab page, on which one can find: the Virtual Pigeon Simulator, accompanied by an alarming video of a genuine pigeon attempting to woo a PC monitor.
The Iffiness of Santa
More than 95 percent of the children were visibly indifferent or hesitant as they approached Santa. This research finding, reported in 2004 by Professor Emeritus John Trinkaus of Baruch Business School in New York City (we described it here a year ago), and replicated in a study Professor Trinkaus published in 2005, will again be […]