Professor Terry Frank Pettijohn II, of Coastal Carolina University, is the lead author of a new study which investigates the ‘Chin Area’ (and other facial features such as ‘Eye Width’) of US country Music singers between 1946 and 2010 – and examines possible correlations with an index of economic and social conditions called the General Hard […]
Year: 2015
The Specter of the Specter of Internet Pornography
The dire, horrible, brain-damaging effects of pornography may not exactly exist, suggests this study of a study that insists that yes, those effects do exist. The studies are: “Neuroscience research fails to support claims that excessive pornography consumption causes brain damage,” Rory C. Reid, Bruce N. Carpenter, and Timothy W. Fong, Surgical Neurology International, 2011; […]
Explosive Lemming Outbreaks in Fennoscandia
An outbreak of lemmings is not something you’ll see every year. The last major one was 2006 to 2007 – the first time in two decades. The causes of, and mechanisms behind, such population surges are, to this day, intriguing naturalists (and physicists, and mathematicians). But some progress towards understanding the outbreaks is, however, being […]
Cup-of-coffee micro-droplets surface physics, poetically
Investigator Mason Porter sent us this note, about a study he noticed: The thing that strikes me about this paper is the first sentences of the abstract — just about the most poetic initial sentence that I have ever seen in an abstract of a scientific paper. So one thing that could be interesting (to me, […]