UPDATE (October 2015): We have now converted the magazine to PDFs. No more paper! You can now subscribe to the PDF edition of the magazine. (The November/December 2015 issue will be the final issue that we also publish on paper — all new issues after that will be exclusively in PDF form!) * [Here, below, is the […]
Professor Simon Leonardo Altman
Professor Simon Leonardo Altman , Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, is a mathematical physicist whose main work is on group theory, quaternions, and solid state. Since his retirement his main interests have been history and philosophy of science, poetry, especially science poetry, and some work on art theory, mainly concerning right-left problems. His website […]
The man who studied Shanghai soup dumplings intensively for a year
Christopher St. Cavish has, he says, studied Shanghai soup dumplings, and wants to share (for a small fee) the results of his study. He explains: The Shanghai Soup Dumpling Index is a scientific investigation into the quality of soup dumplings in Shanghai. It applies a quantitative framework to the existing qualitative descriptors of the Shanghai soup […]
Cannibalism nutrition study, or translation snafu?
Lesson: When translating your study title into another language, check for cannibalism. Here’s an example: “Nutritional Characteristics of Lithuanian Olympic basketball team-players,” Rimantas Stukas [pictured here], Marius Baranauskas, Proceedings of the International Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases Management, Klaipėda, 2012, p. 25.