A distinguished mathematics professor, who requests anonymity, writes: I have a complaint and no where to send it – so naturally I am sending it to you. Crayola has made their chalk thinner. It is not much thinner. But it is thinner enough. It is also shorter. I went back to my office and found […]
Month: January 2008
Sleep in parts
More surprising still, Ekirch reports that for many centuries, and perhaps back to Homer, Western society slept in two shifts. People went to sleep, got up in the middle of the night for an hour or so, and then went to sleep again. Thus night ? divided into a ?first sleep? and ?second sleep? ? […]
Shyam Srinivasan joins LFHCfS
Shyam Srinivasan has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I have always wanted to join the LFHCFS. Over the past few years it has become as much of a goal as getting a PhD. Finally, after many months, nay, years of careful grooming and hard work, I feel qualified to submit […]
Things a person cannot learn that a computer can, so they say
Malfeasance is getting its singular day in the sun, so to speak: “No single biometric is suited for all applications,” said Govindaraju, who also is founder and director of UB’s Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors. “Here at CUBS, we take a unique approach to developing technologies that combine and ‘tune’ different biometrics to fit […]