PeaceBang’s Beauty Tips for Ministers is the name of a blog. The blog is all about beauty tips for ministers. Here is one of them: While we’re on the subject of clean cutting, fellas, I’m seeing FOOD IN BEARDS at collegial gatherings. I am seeing UNTRIMMED GOATEES. I am seeing SIDES OF ‘STACHES THAT DRIP […]
Year: 2007
Animating impossible objects
But is it possible to create an interactive impossible object, that is, an impossible object that can be viewed from any angle? This paper explores the creation of such objects on the computer. So say Chih W. Khoh and Peter Kovesi in their paper “Animating Impossible Objects.” (Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this […]
Intellectual Distancing (Aegean and elsewhere)
At many universities, the departments keep a certain distance from each other. At one university this has always, and exactly been true. At the University of the Aegean, different departments are on different islands. The sociology department is on Lesvos, 90 nautical miles distant from the maths department, which is on Samos…. So begins this […]
Research into research into research
Research into research can be improved That’s the headline on a November 17, 2006 press release issued by the Karolinska Institute. The press release goes on to say: The methods used to evaluate the quality of research can be far more accurate and far-reaching, according to a new doctoral thesis on bibliometrics from Karolinska Institutet […]