Investigator Bob O’Hara asks: “Should this journal really be open access?” He is referring to The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. The journal’s founders — at least those who are making their identities public — are Cynthia Dwork, Stephen E. Fienberg and Alan F. Karr.
About: Alice Shirrell Kaswell
Posts by Alice Shirrell Kaswell:
Museum of Failed Products
Robert McMath is the curator, to the extent that there is a curator, of the Museum of Failed Products, to the extent that the museum exists. (Thanks to investigator Wendy Grossman for bringing this to our attention.)
The donut robot
Here is my Belshaw Donut Robot 42. My robot came configured to make 384 donuts per hour automatically. I bought it on eBay for $900, which I thought was a good deal as this particular Donut Robot normally sells for a few hundred dollars more. It was difficult to find information about the Belshaw Donut […]
Cole’s nailed jelly
Given some jelly mixed according to standard procedures and a vertical wall, it is not possible to nail the former to the latter and have it stay there for any significant amount of time. Furthermore, these experiments were conducted by nailing the jelly to a horizontal surface which was then gradually tilted. Nailing jelly to […]