This study compares the mean and normalised distribution of the Body Mass Index of women and men in the Marvel Universe, and with women and men in the “real” world. So reads the abstract of a study published online: “Comparative Sex-Specific Body Mass Index in the Marvel Universe and the “Real” World,” by Karen Healey […]
Year: 2006
Black hoof, white hoof: fixation
Horseshoe Fixation versus Hoof Colour, a Comparative Study, by five scientists at the University of Guelph, in Canada, digs deep into an old question. Some horses have white hooves, some have black, some have an assortment. Which colour holds horseshoes most reliably? Professor RJ Runcimen and his colleagues write: “In an application that is as […]
Too heady an experience: sex
Investigator Machiel Stolk writes: The research of the famous Gert Holstege has reached another climax! Recently, a Dutch national newspaper [de Volkskrant] reported that Holstege has scientifically proved that “women lose control when they are having an orgasm”. Holstege used his favorite research instrument, the PET scan, to investigate women?s brain activity during an orgasm. […]
Compressed, yet exploding, history
The history of religion in 90 seconds. The imperial history of the Middle East in 90 seconds. These and more, in exploding color, with appropriately quasi-pseudo-logarithmic time scales, are part of the Maps of War web site. They pull off in three dimensions the kind of info-clarification that Edward Tufte is famed for doing in […]