NOTICE (posted May 29, 2007): A scientist who joined the LFHCfS on May 16, 2007 sent the club a request on May 29, 2007. The LFHCfS has of course done what the gentleman asked, resulting in this updated entry. The scientist’s note said: Hi, Thanks for immortalizing my hair in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club […]
Month: May 2007
When pie meets bug
Throwing Tiny Pies at Bugs After careful research, it turns out the footage in this Motorola commercial is in fact real. Pretty ridiculous. So writes Zooillogix. [Click on the image to see video.]
Hairy-faced presidents
Nicholas White has analyzed the relationship between facial hair and presidential elections. (Thanks to investigator Ron Josephson for bringing this to our attention.)
Jonathan McDowell joins the LFHCfS
Jonathan McDowell has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Laura Grego, who nominated him, says: I believe Dr. McDowell’s mind is always reaching for the infinite and his hair does not want to be left behind. You can certainly spy his locks in this photo, but I have personally seen them way longer. […]
The Familiar Stranger Project
Familiar Strangers are individuals that we regularly observe but do not interact with. By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction. The claim is that the relationship we have with these Familiar Strangers is indeed a real relationship in which both parties agree to mutually ignore each […]
Janet Rosenbaum joins LFHCfS
Janet Rosenbaum has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I’m a Ph.D. candidate in health policy, AM in statistics, and the author of “Reborn a virgin: adolescents’ recanting of virginity pledge and sexual histories“, published last year in the American Journal of Public Health and also in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend […]
The further adventures of Frank W.
Ah 1999?the summer my husband Frank Wilczek almost blew up the universe, as recently dredged up by the latest New Yorker. So writes Betsy Devine. “I know Frank Wilczek,” Engelen told me. “He is an order of magnitude smarter than I am. But he was perhaps a bit na?ve.” Engelen said that CERN officials are […]
Who Will Win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
Eric Schulman, who used statistical methods to predict who would win the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, now predicts what will happen in 2008. He and a colleague offer a full report. It begins: Who Will Win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election? by Eric Schulman, Alexandria, Virginia and Daniel Debowy, New York University School of Medicine, […]
Biscui-physico pioneer takes to the web
Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner Len Fisher has a new web site and blog. Dr. Fisher won his Ig in 1999 “for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit.” He is a busy man, even giving tours, among them one called Power, Peas and Progress.
Students big on paper?
College students: Do I look fat in this picture? FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — Several female students at Framingham State College are accused of stealing about one-thousand copies of the student newspaper, apparently because they thought they looked fat in a front page picture. So says a report by WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, about an impromptu psychology […]