In this photo, three out of four Swiss physicists hold their faces.
Year: 2009
Potheads: Teapot-head hunting
Please join is in the sport of commemorative head-of-real-person teapot hunting. Several are pictured below. Click on each image to get to the web site where it originates. Here are Kim Jong Il, Winston Churchill, Hitler, and Lady Diana (it is not immediately clear to us where the tea emerges from Lady Diana — her […]
Sorta-seems-scientifical: shoe memories
The Telegraph reported on a kinda-sorta-seems-scientifical research project, complete with cryptic explanation by experts. (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing it to our attention): more than 92 per cent of women could remember the first shoes they bought with their own money. Less than two, however, in three recalled the name of the person […]
So simple that only a child can do it…
A new study reaffirms the Tom Lehrer song that mathematics, as presented by professionals, is “so very simple that only a child can do it.” The study is “What Do Transitive Inference and Class Inclusion Have in Common? Categorical (Co)Products and Cognitive Development,” published in the December 2009 issue of PLoS Computational Biology. The authors […]