People differ in their diurnal (time of day) preferences: some are morning-types and others are evening-types. These differences are explored in a unique experiment design in which subjects are randomly assigned to produce paper airplanes at either 8:00 a.m. or 10:00 p.m. Our results show that evening-types, at their optimal time of day (10:00 p.m.), […]
About: Stephen Drew
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Naming Names (and Flies)
M.M. Green is not annoyed not by flies, but he writes about his annoyance at people who speak imprecisely about flies. “It Really Is Not a Fruit Fly,” M.M. Green, Genetics, vol. 162, 2002, pp. 1–3. (Thanks to Judy Lai for bringing this to our attention.) Green, at University of California, Davis, explains [AIR 15:5]: […]
How to make a moebius bagel
George W. Hart devised an elegant, mathematical way to slice a bagel [AIR 16:1]: It is not hard to cut a bagel into two equal halves which are linked like two links of a chain. The line ABCDA, which goes smoothly through all four key points, is the cut line. As it goes 360 degrees […]
Why Do Women Swear?
A study of distaff ejaculations: “Why Do Women Swear? An Exploration of Reasons for and Perceived Efficacy of Swearing in Dutch Female Students,” Eric Rassin and Peter Muris, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 38, no. 7, May 2005, pp. 1669–74. (Thanks to Alisa Frith for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, who are at […]