If you’re not watching the Super Bowl, and you happen to be in New York City, come to the 92nd Street Y, on Lexington Avenue at 92nd St., New York. The event starts at 8 pm, Sunday, February 5. Some TICKETS are still available. You will see “Bang! Bang! The Big Bang Theory meets The Big Bang Theory”, a […]
Year: 2017
Side Effects of Inversion Tables (tables that turn people upside-down)
A company called The Back Pain Relief Center looks (perhaps ruefully?) at some research on “Side Effects of Inversion Tables“.
Puppet Master: Possible Influence of Parasite Toxoplasma gondii on Managers and Employees
Is your boss easily distracted? Impulsive? With a diminishing IQ? It’s possible the he/she might be hosting the mind-altering parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Attention is drawn to this possibility in the latest online issue of the journal Academy of Management Perspectives. An investigation by Petr Houdek, [pictured right] who is a director at the CEBEX experimental […]
Boxer crab lifstyle: Hold anemonies in your claws, and make them reproduce
Boxer crabs almost constantly hold the fate — and the bodies — of sea anemones in their hands, so to speak. In their claws, really. There’s a new paper about this: “Boxer crabs induce asexual reproduction of their associated sea anemones by splitting and intraspecific theft“, Yisrael Schnytzer, Yaniv Giman, Ilan Karplus, and Yair Achituv, PeerJ, […]