Dead celebrities fared better and better against other dead persons as the twentieth century progressed, suggests this study of who was celebrated and who was not: “Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Apotheosis of Celebrities in 20th Century America,” Timothy J. Bertoni [pictured here] and Patrick D. Nolan, Sociation Today, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring/Summer […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Seat vibration test: oscillate the human
This video documents (or as layperson say, “shows”) some seat-vibration testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, at some point in the 1960s. (Thanks to Wes O’Neill for bringing it to our attention.)
Where’s the ice?
Mindat.org is an online mineral and locality database. The site provides global location data for quite literally hundreds of minerals – e.g. Herbertsmithite. Scroll down for the map, which shows that Herbertsmithite may be found in : Chile, Greece, Iran, and the USA. But the site is by no means restricted to exotic minerals – […]
PR Headline ‘o the Week: Singing & Simulate Driving
This week’s Press Release Headline of the Week appears in a press release from the publisher of a journal. The headline is: “A simulator study of the effects of singing on driving experience“. The study to which it refers is: “A Simulator Study of the Effects of Singing on Driving Performance,” Genevieve M. Hughes, Christina […]