There are new clues in the quest for a fully coherent theory of the perception and neural representation of size-variant human vowels in the Mongolian gerbil. Previous investigations in the US (see: Improbable Research, January 15th, 2010) found that Mongolian gerbils can easily be trained to recognise vowel sounds in human speech. Now, however, Uwe […]
Month: July 2010
The Relativity of Wrong
Isaac Asimov, in his 1989 essay “The Relativity of Wrong“: The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece. “If I am the wisest man,” said Socrates, “it is because I alone know that I know nothing.” the implication […]
Lowering into the books
Bookride describes a passage from a 2009 book Books Do Furnish a Room, by Leslie Geddes Brown: There is a great shot of designer Sallie Trout who built shelves in an inaccessible stairwell which she reaches by a bosun’s chair fastened to a chain hoist hanging from the ceiling above.
Nose Art Psychology
Of all the available publications on Aircraft Nose Art, very few have investigated its psychological undercurrents. An exception is ‘Aircraft Nose Art: From World War I to Today’ (1991). Chapter 1 of which was authored by the late George R. Klare, who was Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. In his essay ‘Why Nose […]