Dr Shu Jin Lee, and colleagues at the Department of Surgery, at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, have been examining the pages of Playboy Magazine – they are in search of “beauty”. Specifically, beautiful navels. With the aid of computer software which they have developed (called the Aesthetic Analyzer*) […]
They remind us to remind you: Ig Nobel tickets go on sale Tuesday
The Press Association, with a knowing look back at past Ig Nobel winners, reminds us to remind you that tickets for this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony go on sale Tuesday, July 8, 2014, at noon (US eastern time). Tickets will be available exclusively from the Harvard Box Office, on line, on phone, and in person. […]
A new, more rapid, yet unhasty look at pitch slowly dropping
Inspired, eventually, by the long, slow, continuing Australian pitch-drop experiment, a team in London has speeded things up considerably but — deliberately — not at all completely. They published a study about it: “Measurement of bitumen viscosity in a room-temperature drop experiment: student education, public outreach and modern science in one,” A.T. Widdicombe, P. Ravindrarajah, […]
A quick look at a typewriter typing, and some random digits [videos]
Here’s a quick look at a typewriter typing numbers: And here are some random digits: