Investigator Noor Mohammad Cheema writes: I hate cockroaches and rats. After many experiments to get rid of them, I found several techniques . These techniques are to create fear in them — after you apply one of these techniques, the rats have no way except to leave that place immediately. One technique is very funny. […]
Year: 2006
Leeson bounds to success
As an unsupervised young chief trader in Singapore in 1995, Nicholas W. Leeson lost $1.3 billion in frenzied trades in Japanese stock futures and bonds, destroying his employer, the 233-year-old Barings Bank, which had Queen Elizabeth as a customer.Now, Mr. Leeson, having served four years in prison and survived a bout with colon cancer, has […]
The Emergence of Clocky
Gauri Nanda — winner of a 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for inventively solving her chronic oversleeping problem — has made good on her promise to help other oversleepers rise and run. Clocky is the now-famous alarm clock that runs away and hides, repeatedly. The Boston Globe reports, on December 26, 2006, that: Clocky’s inventor, Gauri […]
Alas, Ryff
Perhaps, just maybe, there are people who are not excited about Ryff‘s Six-Factor Model of Well-Being. But for everyone who is excited, there’s news, albeit bad news. Kristen W. Springer, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeremy Freese are publishing a report called “Bad News Indeed for Ryff’s Six-Factor Model of Well-Being.” It’s in the journal Social […]