A mantis playing with (or being played with by a human via) a cursor. This epic one-minute nature adventure was video’d by Maria Plumb and Rod Thompson (and propagated by BoingBoing):
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Knuckle Cracking (1975)
Dr. Donald Unger was awarded the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine for his more than 60-year-long personal investigation of knuckle-cracking. Here’s an earlier, though much more time-compressed, study by other scientists: “The Consequences of Habitual Knuckle Cracking,” Robert L. Swezey and Stuart E. Swezey, Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 122, no. 5, May 1975, pp. 377–9. […]
Peter’s pack of pecking poulets
THES has an essay about chickens “and the psychopathic nature of modern ‘efficiency’”, by Peter Lennox, senior lecturer in spatial perception in artificial environments and director of the Signal Processing and Applications Group, University of Derby: In today’s economic climate, efficiency and competitiveness are the guiding principles of business, of life; more product faster, while […]
Smiling all the way
“… the degree to which one smiles in photographs taken in early life predicts the likelihood that a person will be divorced later in life.” say researchers from the Touch and Emotion Lab at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, US, a key center for facial and tactile communication studies. The lab has recently completed two long-term […]