Yahoo Answers accepts questions that few other answer-all-questions services do. Here’s an example: “What is the difference between sociology and phycology?” Yahoo Answers says that the former “tends to examine groups of persons (societies), communities, and nations” while the latter “examines more of the workings of the human mind, why persons think and behave as […]
Month: October 2010
A 2D face of 3D dental research
Science Illustrated describes 3D-imaging dental research conducted at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering. The profile features this attractive 2D-image:
The tale of the whale and the parachute
Potvin ([seen here] with an accelerometer on his head) has been helping the biologists build a sophisticated physical model of a feeding fin whale. They set out to build a model that would produce the kinds of behavior that real whales do. For example, a fin whale will dive hundreds of feet down in search […]
More about less fat (than what)
New Scientist’s Feedback column cogitates: On 30 January, we reported on the fat content of Cadbury’s Mini Rolls. Now Rod Costigan sends us his thoughts about another Cadbury product, Fry’s Turkish Delight. The packaging of this “exotic taste sensation” boasts that it is “60 per cent less fat*, and always has been”. Rod says he […]