The old technique of judging people by examining their head bumps gets a new looking-at, in this study: “An Empirical, 21st Century Evaluation of Phrenology,” Oiwi Parker Jones, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, and Saad Jbabdi, bioRxiv 243089, 2018. The authors, at the University of Oxford, UK, explain: Phrenology was a nineteenth century endeavour to link personality traits […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Envenomations by Rattlesnakes Thought to Be Dead, Then and Now
Old rattlesnake research gains new bite, with the news reports of a man who decapitated a rattlesnake, and then was bitten by the detorsoed snake head [“Texas Man’s Near-Fatal Lesson: A Decapitated Snake Can Still Bite” — New York Times]. The most pertinently focussed study was published almost 20 years ago: “Envenomations by Rattlesnakes Thought to […]
“Fake dog testicles made this man a millionaire”
Ig Nobel Prize winner Gregg A. Miller and his doggone—well, dogpartiallygone—invention, Neuticles, are profiled by CNBC, with the headline “Fake dog testicles made this man a millionaire“: The 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded to Gregg A. Miller of Oak Grove, Missouri, for inventing Neuticles—artificial replacement testicles for dogs, available in three sizes, and three degrees […]
Zoey Loves Kitchen Shoes
Today we received this note: I’m Zoey, and I’m the editor of [REDACTED]; I wanted to reach out to you after coming across this article of yours: https://improbable.com/2015/12/04/getting-to-the-bottom-of-the-swiss-fondue-paradox-philosophically/ We recently put together an in-depth resource (~6K words) about kitchen shoes, which received over 1000 social shares. It’s quite different to the other articles you see on the web about this topic. […]