Reese Jenniges has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I’ve been called ‘hippie’, ‘long-hair’, and most recently, ‘Reezus Christ’, which is tastefully blasphemous. Most of my work is in data collection, analysis, and management on a menagerie of topics ranging from tobacco research to criminal justice to educational program evaluation. Nothing rocks like […]
How gold wedding rings go missing abrasively
A gold wedding band symbolises permanence, but bits of it disappear as a marriage endures, scraping against the marital skin every moment that metal and finger convene. Georg Steinhauser, a chemist at Vienna University of Technology, calculated how much goes missing, how quickly and at what cost. Steinhauser’s study, Quantification of the Abrasive Wear of a Gold Wedding […]
Poll: Which number is the most important?
This month’s Scientific Correctness Survey will settle yet another science-related controversy simply, by asking the public to vote. Please vote: [poll id=”1″]
Failed Humor in Washington State.
To begin, an example. Two friends in their 20s (called ‘L’ who is female, and ‘R’ who is male) are conversing : L: “What did the big cup say to the little cup?” R: (sarcastically) “I’m bigger than you?” L: “No, Nothing. Cups can’t talk”. R: (completely ignoring L) “I can hold more water than […]