McGill University physics graduate student Tim Blais sings, in highly coordinated bits and pieces, about physics. Two examples: Quantum Gravity: Rolling in the Higgs: BONUS: An interview with Tim Blais BONUS (unrelated): If you misspell Tim Blais’s name, you might find yourself reading about a different physicist, on a different continent: Tim Ball.
Enhanced Men Seem Satisfied with Women’s Satisfaction with Enhanced Membership
Another study about enhanced membership and satisfaction in venues where males and females interact: “High Patient Satisfaction after Inflatable Penile Prostheses Implantation Correlates with Female Partner Satisfaction,” Ioannis Vakalopoulos, Spyridon Kampantais, Stavros Ioannidis, Leonidas Laskaridis, Panagiotis Dimopoulos, Chrysovalantis Toutziaris, Michail Koptsis, Gerard D. Henry, Vasileios Katsikas, Journal of Sexual Medicine, epub 2013. The authors, at […]
Wassersug and the frogs in space
Jason Goldman, writing in The Guardian, today tells of the long history of frogs being sent (by humans) into space for scientific purposes: “Frogs in space: one giant leap indeed“. Ig Nobel Prize winner Richard Wassersug [pictured here] has an intimate relationship with the history of frogs in space. Among his publications in that realm: “Emesis and […]
“There’s a touching nobility in the Ig Nobel…”
Warwick McFadyen, writing in The Age, perhaps at the the end of a long day, takes a philosophical look at the Ig Nobel Prizes: A touching nobility can be discovered in the goofiness of life The world needs more awards to honour absurdity. …So let us praise the Ig Nobel Prizes, which were announced at the end […]