Of today’s many press headlines about a cat in Korea that was engineered to glow in the dark, the most intriguing appears in the Telegraph in London: Glow-in-the-dark cat could help cut disease
Year: 2007
Rupz?iyat? B?ppum?
What sort of person is named Rupzoiyat? In 1916, a researcher at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, asked that very question – and conducted an experiment to find the answer. The researcher, herself named G English, wanted to understand what she called “the nature of the psychological response to proper names of unknown persons”. […]
Beauty: Face-chewing fish
Got psoriasis? One option for treatment is to let a particular kind of fish chew on your face. Where to obtain this treatment? Try the Kangal fish spa in Turkey. The Kangal fish spa, 13 kilometers from the center of the town of Kangal, boasts of a “certificate given from the Turkish Ministry of Health… […]
Statistics Lesson: Cracks in the system
At some point we noticed a crack in the windshield of our car. It’s a single line, about 8 inches long, not the spider web fracture typical of a pebble or assassination attempt. We don’t know exactly when it happened or how. Our insurance covers it. But when I went to file the claim through […]