Many medical journals sport attractive ads. Many of these ads supply information to back up their claims (or will supply information, if you ask the advertiser for it). To what extent does that info actually support what the ad says? This study took a bit of a look into the question: “Claim Validity of Print […]
Month: May 2011
Esther the Cold War Kitty
Today we look back at the apocryphal story of Esther the Cold War Kitty (from the Sept/Oct 2004 special Cats issue of the Annals of Improbable Research). First, a bit of introduction: The book Esther the Cold War Kitty is legendary. Written at the height of the Cold War, it was intended as propaganda for children in […]
Bees, explosively in translation and back
Investigator Daniel Heller [pictured here] alerts us to something peculiar that pertains to a soon-to-be-published study he co-authored. The study is “Peptide secondary structure modulates single-walled carbon nanotube fluorescence as a chaperone sensor for nitroaromatics“, PNAS 2011 : 1005512108v1-6. Heller writes: “[Someone] seems to have translated an online post about our article into a foreign language and […]
More NMR rides: Through Ugli and Okra
Think of this as Thrilling Virtual Rides Through Food (before the food takes a thrilling ride through you), part 2. Here are two more of Andy Ellison’s magnetic resonance images of foods. (He makes them into animated GIFs, which give a sort of thrilling quick ride through the food from one end, or side, or […]