These five photographs (below) are the results from an experiment performed November 26 at Imperial College London. 2006 Ig Nobel Mathematics Prize co-winner Piers Barnes was a featured lecturer at the evening’s special Improbable Research event. Dr. Barnes described his Ig-winning research — the calculation of how many photos one must take of a group […]
Year: 2007
The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale
If you know nothing else about the Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale, you should know this: The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale includes a 13-item shyness scale and a 20-item shyness scale. The original, unrevised Shyness Scale includes a 9- item shyness scale. It, the original, was devised by J.M. Cheek and A.H. […]
Chicken and hamster, from afar
Here are two projects by investigator Adrian Cheok 1. How to make your pet chicken feel loved even when you are 2000 miles away. 2. How to enjoy quality time with your pet hamster in a virtual reality game (Thanks to investigators Elaine Chew and Alex Francois for bringing this to our attention.)
Professor Breedlove points the finger further
Professor C. Marc Breedlove has sent us another letter (click here to read about his first letter). Professor Breedlove measures the lengths of people’s fingers. His two letters refer to the graph at right, of which we originally wrote: In 2000, his study, Finger-length Ratios and Sexual Orientation, appeared in the journal Nature. It features […]