If you are or should be or ever might be in a situation where you might worry or should worry about the transmission of disease via a CPR manikin, this report is for you: “Guidelines for the prevention of disease transmission in the use of CPR manikin,” Committee to Advise The American Red Cross, National […]
Year: 2012
Gift e-book issues of Improbable Research!
Why yes! You can give someone a gift e-book issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble make that easy to do. FREE ISSUE: And you can get (and if you like, then give) a free issue. BACKGROUND: In case you haven’t heard: We invented a way to make picture-rich […]
Ig Nobel winner’s turkey (and other) carving insight
The BBC celebrates a newly published study by Mahadevan [pictured here], the man who (with colleague Enrique Cerda Villablanca) was awarded the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for studying how sheets get wrinkled. The new study is: “Slicing Softly with Shear,” E. Reyssat, T. Tallinen, M. Le Merrer, and L. Mahadevan, Physical Review Letters, epub […]
On the nth Day of Christmas, My True Love’s Cost Was x
Accountants can bring order to otherwise frothy undertakings. An example: “Cost analysis: the acquisition of the items listed in a popular Christmas song,” Dianne M. Dean, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2007, Vol.20(5), p.790-792. The author, in Beechworth, Australia, protects her status in the profession by explaining “A humorous approach is taken”, then gives details: […]