Our grip on reality is slim, says UCL scientist That’s the headline on a press release issued on June 24, 2007 by University College London. Reading the headline obviates the need or desire to read further details.
Year: 2008
Improbable Research Collection #113
Here’s episode 113 (“Coca-Cola Classic”) of the Improbable Research TV series. This one features 2008 Ig Nobel chemistry prize co-winner Deborah J. Anderson discussing her study “Effect of ‘Coke’ on Sperm Motility.” [Note: Dr. Anderson has a new study, building on the earlier work, published in this week’s BMJ.] To see it, click on the […]
Birdwatching without innocence
Birdwatching is reputedly a wholesome, innocent pastime. But it can be a richer experience than that. Some years ago, an ornithologist of my acquaintance, while looking through his telescope in Van province in Eastern Turkey, saw bimaculated larks, crimson-winged finches and black-bellied sandgrouse. Then he saw an elderly male shepherd engaged in congress with a […]
Who Looks Where How Often
“Gender Differences for Specific Body Regions When Looking at Men and Women,” Johannes Hewig, Ralf H. Trippe, Holger Hecht, Thomas Straube and Wolfgang H.R. Miltner, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 32, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 67–78 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10919-007-0043-5). (Thanks to Nicole Bordes for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, report: […]