Thanks to the deterioration of Olympic medals, the field of metallurgy, which in recent years has tended to call itself “materials science“, is having a shining moment in the sun. La Lettre reports [here machine -translated into English]: Investigation How the Paris Mint fell off the podium with its Olympic medals According to information from […]
Eleanor Maguire died on January 4, 2025. Here is the beginning of her obituary, written by Calli McMurray, in The Transmitter: Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory. By Calli McMurray 10 January 2025 One […]
Every country has its limits. One of those limits, for one country, is on display in this study: “Mismatch between jar opening demands and wrist torque strength of consumers in Iran,” Iman Dianat, Behzad Asadi, Héctor Ignacio Castellucci, Applied Ergonomics, vol. 94, March 2021, article 103421. The authors report: “A considerable mismatch (range = 25%–100%) […]
Frank Schallmaier, photo editor of the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, collects photos of STOP signs that have spelling errors. He shared some of his favorites with the newspaper’s readers. (Thanks to Kees Moeliker for sopting to notice Schallmaier’s collection and bring it to our attention.)