In the further further vaginal pH adventures of Kate Clancy, Professor Clancy goes where few men dare to go: Vaginal pH Redux: Broader Perspectives on Douching, Race… and Lime Juice
Month: February 2012
Four Ig Nobel winners coming to Leeds on 8 March
The Ig Nobel show—featuring a full gaggle of Ig Nobel Prize winners—is coming to Leeds for the first time ever, as the kickoff event in the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK, part of National Science & Engineering Week. The Ig winners have each been honored for doing something that makes people laugh, then think. […]
Experiments with inflatable & other life-size dolls
A generic life-size doll, with no modifications, was the key element in at least one unplanned experiment — the experiment documented in a 1993 monograph called Transmission of Gonorrhoea Through an Inflatable Doll, published in the journal Genitourinary Medicine. But generally, scientists who conduct planned experiments that rely on life-size dolls prefer to carefully optimise, or […]
Presidents’ Face Shapes and Achievements
The shape of American presidents faces tells much about how they would and did act, suggests a new study (which cites a recent similar study about corporate CEOs’ face shapes and their companies’ performance): “Facial width-to-height ratio predicts achievement drive in US presidents,” G.J. Lewis, C.E. Lefevre, T.C. Bates, Personality and Individual Differences, in press 2012. […]