Perhaps your thoughts will be swayed by the argument made in this study: “Benefits of Swaying While Standing to Higher Selective Attention in Goal-Directed Visual Tasks,” Anke Hua, Mélen Guillaume, Sergio T. Rodrigues, Fabio A. Barbieri, and Cédrick T. Bonnet, Human Movement Science, vol. 99, February 2025, article 103318. The authors explain: “Overall, our finding […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes have again turned up in a crossword puzzle, this time as an answer in the April 22, 2025 puzzle in The New Yorker. The clue for one of the across words is: 53 Its inventors won an Ig Nobel prize “for diverting millions of person-hours of work into the husbandry of virtual […]
The Ig Nobel Southern Cal Tour begins a few days from now, with events in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Irvine. It’s all about Ig Nobel Prize winners and other people who have done things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. All three events are open to the public, free. Here is […]
String cheese plays a literally remarkable role in US patent 9424840B1, which was granted on August 23, 2016. As illustrated in the drawing you see here, the patent includes this passage: FIG. 1A, for instance, illustrates the user providing an example request 128(1). Here, the user 104 states “I’d like some string cheese, please.” In response to generating an audio […]