Herman van Goubergen produced a downloadable, fold-togetherable origami gecko and fly on a wall. Here is a photo.
Howtoons and the flying girl
Howtoons are toons that tell how to do some particular thing — usually some spectacular technical kind of thing. One such thing can be seen in this AVI video of a little girl riding a hovercraft. The video was taken during the preparations for one of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies.
THOUGHT-STIMULATING QUIZ: Humor and the brain
Here’s a quick quiz, which we offer free for teachers who like to stimulate thought. Use it to do that very thing with your students. THE QUIZ QUESTION: Read the following explanation from a November 7, 2005 press release issued by Stanford University. How many different alternative explanations can you devise in sixty (60) seconds? […]
Cheers for pharma
Drug companies, some of them, have discovered a pool of well-schooled, well-groomed, cheerful people to hire as sales representatives, according to a November 28 report by Stephanie Saul in The New York Times: Anyone who has seen the parade of sales representatives through a doctor’s waiting room has probably noticed that they are frequently female […]