Imagine that you’re female, and that you’re involved in door to door fundraising. Would it be best (purely from a financial returns viewpoint) to be blonde or brunette? Assistant Professor Michael K. Price at the Department of Economics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville has undertaken an investigation : “This study examines how a cosmetic attribute – […]
Year: 2012
Big and/or small: One and/or the other, and both
Richard Wiseman demonstrates, in this video, some different kinds of difference between big and small:
Great names together: Pinch & Rottenberg
Trevor Pinch [pictured here, at right] and Richard Rottenberg [pictured below] sometimes collaborate, says Professor Pinch’s web page, as well as Professor Rottenberg’s. You will note that Wikipedia notes that “Trevor Pinch’s book, Confronting Nature is widely considered the definitive sociological account of the history of the solar neutrino problem, and was mentioned by Raymond Davis in his 2002 […]
Further Physics of Tumbling Toast
It was back in 1844 that the Victorian poet and satirist James Payn wrote : “I’ve never had a piece of toast particularly long and wide, but fell upon a sanded floor, and always on the buttered-side.” Depending on whether you are an optimist or a pessimist this poetic generalisation may […]