When it comes to simple, yet patentable ideas, it’s not easy to find a better example than US Patent 7096526B1 granted in 2006 to inventor Laura E Ogan – entitled ‘Beach Blanket’. “People go to the beach for relaxation. One of the usual objects that is brought to the beach for comfort is a towel. It […]
Month: October 2020
Pocket-Sized #1039: “The A-through-L of Social Dilemmas”
In this Pocket-Sized episode #1039, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to Robin Abrahams. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. Remember, our Patreon donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode before it is made public. 1. Robin Abrahams encounters: Etiquette, by Emily Post, 1942. Seth Gliksman, Production Assistant Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Google Podcasts, […]
Jost Migenda joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)
Jost Migenda has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). They say: While black holes are widely suspected to have no hair[*], many astrophysicists do. During my research on the explosion mechanism of supernovae (magnificent astrophysical events that produce black holes or neutron stars), I have made an even more exciting discovery: Untangling […]
A Hypercubic Appraisal of This Year’s Ig Nobel Prizes
The Hypercubic blog has a thoughtful essay about this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes and ceremony. (The essay is in Portuguese—if you don’t read the language easily, you might enjoy reading it via a machine translation program). It begins [here in translation]: IgNobel 2020: the most unlikely polls of the year TRADITION IS A KNIFE OF […]