This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Intentional cattiness — When cats are forced to endure a crush of mass attention from an adoring public, do they continue to behave in their famous, endearing, imperious “cat-like” ways? Simona Cannas and her colleagues at the […]
Two Ig Nobel Prize winners and some of their colleagues collaborated in a discovery about how some whales are able to communicate. A report from the University of Southern Denmark announces it: Baleen whales evolved a unique larynx to communicate but cannot escape human noise Baleen whales are the largest animals to have ever roamed […]
Discrete Mathematics with Ducks is a textbook about discrete mathematics and ducks: Discrete Mathematics with Ducks (second edition), by Sarah-Marie Belcastro, ISBN 9780367570705, 700 Pages, published June 30, 2020 by Chapman & Hall. (Mostly) unrelated: “How a dead duck changed my life”:
This April, 2024, the Ig Nobel EuroTour will spring to life after several years of hibernation (the hibernation was caused by the Covid pandemic). It’s all about research (and researchers) that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. [NOTE: After the tour, we added some video to this blog post. See below] Events are scheduled in GERMANY, […]