Vicente Martinez has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan. I feel compelled to nominate myself for membership. I easily possess the most luxuriant hair in the Big Ten Conference, and I am an ass-poor doctoral candidate who can?t afford a hair cut. […]
Lisa-ann Gershwin joins LFHCfS
Lisa-ann Gershwin has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I am a jellyfish doctor. My hair travels around the world and discovers new species — kind of a mystic medusa as it were. Dr. Lisa-ann Gershwin National Marine Stinger Advisor State Marine Stinger Advisor Marine Stinger Coordinator Surf Life Saving S. […]
Crisp sounds
Crispness is associated with crunchiness, but your ears make a difference. That’s the takeaway-and-chew-on-it message of an Oxford University study called The Role of Auditory Cues in Modulating the Perceived Crispness and Staleness of Potato Chips. The authors, the experimental psychologists Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence, wax distinctly poetical: “We investigated whether the perception of […]
Ig winners Lay, Skilling keep on keeping on
Former Ig Nobel Economics Prize winners Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling continue their successful pattern of making news. A May 25, 2006 Bloomberg News report gives the latest chapter: Lay, Skilling Convicted of Fraud That Doomed Enron Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who built Enron Corp. into the nation’s seventh-largest company and then drove it […]