“What else does a bear do in the woods?”* asks investigator Don Davis, answering his own question by alerting us to this new study: “Behaviour of Solitary Adult Scandinavian Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) when Approached by Humans on Foot,” Gro Kvelprud Moen, Ole-Gunnar Støen [pictured here], Veronica Sahlén, Jon E. Swenson, (2012). PLoS ONE 7(2): e31699. The […]
Month: February 2012
Coming: The new Improbable Research book
We’re pleased to announce: The new book will be published this September, by OneWorld Publications in London. The book is called This Is Improbable. You can pre-order it now, if you want an improbable book.
Rini’s riveting mummy heads
This photo by Dario Piombino-Mascali, EURAC, and Clinical Anatomy/Wiley is one of several featured in James Owen’s National Geographic article “Mummy Pictures: Secrets of Stunning 19th-Century Heads Revealed“: Owen explains: “Working in the town of Salò, anatomist Giovan Battista Rini (1795-1856) “petrified” the corpses and body parts by bathing them in a cocktail of mercury and other […]
Working Memory Across Nostrils
This week’s memorable cross-nostrils study of the week is: “Working Memory Across Nostrils,” Yaara Yeshurun, Yadin Dudai, and Noam Sobel, Behavioral Neuroscience, vol.122, 2008, pp.1031-1037. BONUS: Sobel did the blindfolded-humans-follow-a-chocolate-small-trail experiment pictured here]. He is also the inventor of the nose-controlled electric wheelchair. BONUS: Yudai performed the snakes-in-an-MRI experiment.