The Arizona Daily Star reports: At UA, neuroscientist honored with Ig Nobel outshines laureates Neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire seemed surprised when she was introduced Thursday as the most famous member of a panel that included three Nobel-Prize-winning scientists. Maguire, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London, was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003 […]
Why mathematicians (some of them) cackle at wobbly tables
Matthias Kreck explains, in this video made by Brady Haran for NumberPhile, a mathematical twist that fixes a wobbly table:
Podcast #4: The rectum of the Bishop of Durham
The rectum of the Bishop of Durham is on display in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. The podcast is all about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK — research about anything and everything, from everywhere —research that’s good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. CBS distributes it, both on the new CBS Play.it web site, and on iTunes. […]
Estimating intranasal volume – the easy way
One way to measure a human subject’s intranasal volume is to perform a structural whole-brain T1-weighted MRI scan, and then use computerised volumetric image analysis software on the resulting data. But is there an easier way? Yes, there is, according to a group of researchers from the Taste and Smell Clinic, University Hospital Carl Gustav […]