Has there ever been a scientist like Greg Braden?He is the ONLY scientist who can boast BOTH of these credentials: (1) The greggbraden.com web site calls him "remarkable." (2) Ig Nobel Prize winner Deepak Chopra is said to have called him a "rare blend of scientist, visionary and scholar." (Thanks to Guillermo Murillo-Godinez for bringing […]
Year: 2006
Men’s Anatomy and Shoe Size Chart
A gentleman calling himself Tex Texin has created, or at least posted, a Men’s Anatomy and Shoe Size chart. It’s reliability must be judged in light of Bain and Siminoski’s 1998 Ig Nobel Statistics Prize-winning report "The Relationship Among Height, Penile Length, and Foot Size." (Thanks to Daniel Rosenberg for bringing this to our attention.)
Einstein and the persistent poet
Throughout his adulthood, Albert Einstein must have endured a continual barrage of visits by unstoppable, if kindly intentioned, eccentrics. One, the persistent poet William Hermanns, later wrote a book called Einstein and the Poet. Hermanns had four meetings with Einstein, one in their native, Hitler-infected, Germany in 1930, the others in 1943, 1948 and 1954, […]
Piling mantis
Investigator Karen Hopkin (creator of the Studmuffins of Science Calendar) comments "I like how on the computer screen it says ‘Type a Question for Help.’ The person should have typed a question about what to do when a praying mantis lays eggs on your monitor." Investigator Hopkin is referring to the scene depicted in a […]