“Protoplasm at the Antipodes” is the title of an article in the very first issue of the journal Nature, in 1869. It begins in stirringly quiet fashion: THE Protoplasm excitement seems to have died away in a great measure in this country; and it is probably no loss to science that the matter has ceased […]
The Professor-Professors & Mono-Professors
Here are the Professor-Professors we have celebrated so far. (This list was updated July 30, 2007. The concept was announced in the December 2005 issue of mini-AIR. Additions to the collection are announced in mini-AIR, and recorded here. Mono-professors?professors who have just one name?are also included in this list.) ABRAHAM ABRAHAM Associate Professor, College of […]
Professor Had-Enough
“Had enough?” This simple question drives Professor Brian Wansink of Cornell University, New York, to conduct experiment after experiment. Had enough popcorn? Had enough candy? Had enough rum and Coke? Wansink wants to know. Most of the other experts on this “Had enough?” are generally nutritionists, mothers, or waiters. They serve up their conclusions in […]
Chilled reasoning
“Is this the future of brain research?” asks investigator Gary Dryfoos in alerting us to an April 29, 2005 report in The Guardian of which one particular sentence is perhaps sufficient to suggest the whole: Neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London scanned the brains of people eating vanilla ice cream.