Dip, if you dare, into the Cumulative Index from 1996 (vol 20) onwards of The Indexer. The Indexer is, by its own admission, “the international journal of indexing”. (Disclaimer/proclaimer: I am an entry in that cumulative index, because of “The“, which led to this.)
Year: 2014
Food-chewing-noise patent application
“Successful dieting requires long-term behavior modification in terms of eating and physical activity. A diet plan is only one part of the solution. Sticking to the plan requires behavior modification that is generally beyond the ability of most people to implement without external assistance.” An invention, designed to provide assistance on such occasions is proposed […]
Kinematics of coitus in five pre-selected positions
Natalie Sidorkewicz carefully analyzed spine and hip motions of ten couples each having sex in five positions. Sidorkewicz wrote it up, as her master’s thesis : “Lumbar Spine and Hip Kinematics and Muscle Activation Patterns during Coitus: A comparison of common coital positions,” Natalie Sidorkewicz, Master of Science thesis in Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, 2013. The main objective […]
The Digit Ratio and the Feminist Paradox
If you know what the digit ratio is [it’s the length of your second finger compared to the length of your fourth finger], the title of this study maybe tells you everything you need to know to appreciate the value of the study: “Feminist activist women are masculinized in terms of digit-ratio and social dominance: […]