This week’s under-publicized researcher of the week is Assistant Professor April Trees of the Communication Department of the University of Colorado. Dr. Trees should not be mistaken for any of her namesakes.
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Night Light Enthusiast
A hamster-powered night light enthusiast has created a hamster-powered night light with a custom low-RPM alternator. (Thanks to investigator Dan Fingerman for bringing this to our attention.)
Test a Parrot
The report "Testing a Language-Using Parrot for Telepathy," by Rupert Sheldrake and Aim?e Morgana, includes these provocatively calming words of confident caution: [T]hese experiments provide compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy. This phenomenon is currently unexplained within the dominant scientific model. (Thanks to investigator Audrey Devine-Eller for bringing this to our attention.)
Best of the Bad
Once again, thanks to Popular Science magazine, there is a list of the worst jobs in science.