An innovational study published in 2016 described how a photo of ‘Watching Eyes’ prominently displayed in the perianesthesia area of a busy hospital could encourage healthcare professionals to use the alcohol handrubs (AHRs) provided. But the experiment was not entirely problem free – some felt that the picture (which showed the eyes of a recognizable leader […]
Month: September 2018
FIRST EVER VIOLIN-TESLA COIL DUET!
Announcement by the Harvard Physics Department: FIRST EVER VIOLIN-TESLA COIL DUET! Instrumentalist, singers, scientists, techies, and at least one Nobel Laureate gathered yesterday in the physics department’s SciBox to rehearse before the 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which will be held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, September 13….
Smiling intensity among scientists is related to greater scientific achievements (new study)
“Using a sample of 440 scientists from a social networking site for researchers, multiple raters coded smile intensity (full smile, partial smile, or no smile) in publicly available photographs. We found that scientists who presented a full smile had the same quantity of publications yet of higher quality” See: Lukasz D. Kaczmarek, Maciej Behnke, Todd […]
“The Duck Guy” in German—A Book for All Ages
Today is publication day for the German edition of Kees Moeliker’s Tell-All-About-The-Duck book. As you probably know, Kees was awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize for biology, for his research study “The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos.” This nifty video shows Kees gamely talking about it in German, rather than […]