The New York Times has again chosen an Ig Nobel Prize-winning invention as one of its “Ideas of the Year”. Their list for 2010 includes the emergency bra, for which the inventor, Dr. Elena Bodnar, was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The Times says: The Bra Mask Treating victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in […]
Year: 2010
Sombre seasonal spikes
For many, the Christmas and New Year period is traditionally seen as one of health and good cheer. A viewpoint perhaps now tempered slightly by the publication of a recent study by professor David Phillips along with colleagues Gwendolyn Barker and Kimberly Brewer from the University of California, San Diego and from UC Los Angeles. […]
Holly Brothers joins LFHCfS
Holly Brothers joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: My hair is too cool for school and so am I. Holly Brothers, LFHCfS Graduate student in psychology Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio, USA
Further startling discoveries from SCIRP
SCIRP, the dashingly mysterious publisher of seemingly-shady science journals [see “Nature looks at the mystery journals“, and the links therein] is still publishing intriguing monographs. Investigator Mike Adams alerts us to this one: “Molecular genetic program (genome) contrasted against non-molecular invisible biosoftware in the light of the Quran and the Bible,” Pallacken Abdul Wahid, Advances […]