Some researchers do research about bears. Some researchers do research about Bears. This new study is about Bears: “Physical, Behavioral, and Psychological Traits of Gay Men Identifying as Bears,” David A. Moskowitz [pictured here], Jonathan Turrubiates, Hector Lozano, Christopher Hajek, Archives of Sexual Behavior, epub April 2013. The authors, at The New York Medical College […]
Batman, (a) psychoanalyzed and (b) fallen
Academics are drawn to Batman, as Batman is drawn to trouble. Here are two academic analyses of the caped crusader. “‘Holy PTSD, Batman!:’ An Analysis of the Psychiatric Symptoms of Bruce Wayne,” S. Taylor Williams, Academic Psychiatry, 36:3, May-June 2012. (Thanks to Amy Mauritson for bringing this to our attention.) And… “Trajectory of a Falling […]
More Flying Saucer Patents (Russian Federation style)
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is not the only blue-chip global-reach official authority which grants patents to the inventors of spacefaring ‘flying saucers‘. So does Федеральная служба по интеллектуальной собственности (Роспатент) (The Federal Service for Intellectual Property in Russia, a.k.a. Rospatent). See, for example : AEROSPACE AIRCRAFT (RF Patent № 2436715) The design […]
Voice pitch ==> CEO remuneration (correction: up is down)
Our eagle-eyed readers my have spotted a curiosity in the abstract for a forthcoming paper in Evolution & Human Behavior. ‘Voice pitch and the labor market success of male chief executive officers’ Specifically, the sentence : “For the median CEO of the median sample firm, an interquartile increase in voice pitch (22.1Hz) is associated with […]