Say “rat”, say “cat”, and say “man”. Then read this study, if you want to: “Phonological similarity and trace degradation in the serial recall task: when CAT helps RAT, but not MAN,” Anthony B. Fallon, Kim Groves, and, Gerald Tehan, International Journal of Psychology, vol. 34, nos. 5/6, 1999, pp. 301-307. The photo, warped though it […]
Seattle NerdNite talk on the Ig Nobel Prize, March 21st
If you will be in Seattle on March 21st then head to the High Dive bar in Fremont to hear Ig Nobel Co-Producer David Kessler give a NerdNite talk: “Onstage & Backstage at The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony”. David will try to describe The Ig Nobel Prize and also some of the interesting people and […]
Why I hate an empty bus stop
Rafael Prieto Curiel, in the mathematics magazine Chalkdust, does some rough calculations about waiting for a bus: “Let’s measure how much time I expect to wait for the next bus to arrive as I observe more or fewer passengers in the stop…. If I find zero passengers at the bus stop, 99% of the time I […]
Ig Nobel Spring EuroTour: The Schedule
This year’s Ig Nobel Spring Eurotour is near upon us: — NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, UK — March 15 — IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UK — March 17 — EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland — March 21 — UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, Norway — March 24 — STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, Stockholm, Sweden — March 27 — KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE, Stockholm, Sweden — […]