National Handwashing Week, December 6-12, 2009, has come and gone with only scant attention paid to its mascot, Henry the Hand. In part, this is due to the low amount of hand-washing and other hand-sanitizing that occurs in the United States. That non-compliance was observed and documented by John Trinkaus in his recent study “Hand […]
About: Marc Abrahams
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Ig winner Chopra skeptical of critics
Deepak Chopra, winner of the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for his unique interpretation of quantum physics as it applies to life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic happiness, recently acknowledged some of his many, many, many, many, many critics. In the San Francisco Chronicle on November 30, 2009, Dr. Chopra wrote: No skeptic, […]
A look back: Cybergraph 2000
Here’s another look back at Project AIRhead 2000 (announced in June 1994). The project celebrated every item, project or concept that had the number 2000 tacked onto its name in giddy anticipation of the coming millennium: Jean Pierre Lapine Cybergraph 2000, a $3000 carbon fiber fountain pen.
The psychology of wonder pants
Investigator Thomas Manton sends this image with a note saying: My father, then a research psychologist in Cincinnati, bought several of these for his lab in the early 1970s. He never published the results of his experiments. He having been dead many years now, and I having been a rather incurious child in the 1970s, […]