Good health is, to a large extent, a matter of good engineering. This study takes that view: “An Industrial Hygienist Looks at Porn,” Deborah Gold, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, vol. 12, no. 8, 2015, pp. 184-190. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.). The abstract says: Deborah Gold, MPH, CIH, […]
Podcast #20: Hey dude
The word “dude”, cheese, and baldness all turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. Click on the “Venetian blinds” icon — at the lower right corner here — to select whichever week’s episode you want to hear: SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams tells about: Hey dude. (Kiesling, Scott F. (2004). ‘Dude.’ American […]
Disambiguating the Lessons from the Ambiguous-Colored Dress
Many will recall the intense Feb. 2015 internet and media storm around the ‘is-it-black/blue’ or ‘is-it-white/gold’ Tumblr dress photo. It’s now become the focus of an international group of colour scientists, who have performed the first [we believe] laboratory-based study centering around the famous photo. The team, from the universities of Granada and Extremadura in […]
A Gastropod taste and listen to electro-acoustical modified Pringles-crunching
The Gastropod podcast (perhaps the most delicious of all podcasts) tastes the taste-and-sound experimental research of 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence. Here’s a snippet, in print form: “Food and drink are among life’s most multisensory experiences,” Spence pointed out, so it’s perhaps hardly surprising that it occurred to him that the parchment skin illusion might […]