The title of this study (though not quite so much the text of it) suggests that some psychology insights might be gained by doing particle collision experiments — experiments analogous to what some physics researchers do: “How Do Narcissistic Employees Respond to Abusive Supervision: Two Roles of Narcissism in Decreasing Perception and Increasing Deviance,” Rong Wang and […]
Year: 2014
On the existence of Stronzo Bestiale
This is one of the many studies credited to co-author Stronzo Bestiale: “Diffusion in a periodic Lorentz gas,” Bill Moran, William G. Hoover [pictured here], and Stronzo Bestiale, Journal of Statistical Physics , vol. 48, no. 3-4 (1987): 709-726. The Retraction Watch blog explains about Stronzo Bestiale: Should papers be retracted if one of the authors is […]
USB cigarettes (pay-as-you-smoke) patent
Phillip Morris International (PMI) has received (Oct. 7th 2014) its US patent for an ‘Electrically Heated Smoking System’ Unlike many currently available ‘vape’ sticks, the new device can heat actual tobacco rather than evaporating a nicotine-based liquid. And, unusually for a cigarette, it can ‘communicate’ with a host computer/ tablet etc via a USB plug. […]
Life – the mystery continues
Over the millennia, many have asked themselves (and others) ‘Life – What exactly is it?’ But (definitive) answers came there none. As is confirmed in a 2012 paper by Edouard Machery, who is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, US. ‘Why I Stopped Worrying about the Definition of […]