Category: Improbable Investigators

Beetles? Hawks.

We received two letters today that appear to be related. One is from a psychology teacher who forwarded this note from a colleague in Daytona Beach, Florida: My cell phone policy went into effect last week. Whenever a student’s cell rings in class, I answer it. The other is from a student, also in Daytona […]

This week’s Research Team of the Week is Schurr, Tits and O’Leary. Schurr, Tits and O’Leary’s  "Universal Duality in Conic Convex Optimization," (Technical Report, June 2004, revised April 2005. Computer Science Department Report CS-TR-4594, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Report UMIACS-2004-37.) (Thanks to Gwen Barnes for too-insistently bringing this to our attention.)

Investigator Mike Palmer writes: I was recently approached by a female coworker, who had purchased a new "ionic" hair dryer, and wanted to know how it worked. I began to explain heat and evaporation, but she was more interested in the "ionic" part. I had no idea, and after researching the topic on the web, […]