Building (in part) on previous research into the potential benefits of superfluous apologies, researchers Alice Lam, Randy Hsu and Ivan Lobachev of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada, decided to investigate whether it might be possible to increase phone users’ “emotional connection” with their phone, by nudging them to […]
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Using Smartphone Apps to Find Sexual Partners [research study]
How to use smartphones to pick up sex partners is a problem that’s been studied by scholars. Now, three other scholars have studied those studies. Here’s what they say they found: “Using Smartphone Apps to Find Sexual Partners: A Review of the Literature,” A. Anzani, M. Di Sarno, and A. Prunas [pictured here], Sexologies, vol. […]
Genetics: App for Icelanders who are apt to sleep with relatives
The News of Iceland web site reports: New App Prevents Icelanders from Sleeping With their Relatives The Icelandic population is very small and all Icelanders are related. But yet, it is big enough so everyone doesn’t know one another. This means that each and every Icelander that is in a relationship, is dating a relative. […]
Ig Nobel Prize-winning Tamagotchi now made free to the public
Tamagotchi, an invention that earned its inventors an Ig Nobel Prize, is now available to the public free, in the form of a downloadable app. The 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to Akihiro Yokoi of Wiz Company in Chiba, Japan and Aki Maita [pictured here] of Bandai Company in Tokyo, the father and mother […]
Chubby Checker, the “Chubby Checker”, and the Ig Nobel Prize
The TCPalm web site, in Florida, reports: Chubby Checker’s federal lawsuit has sexual twist, Gary law firm in Stuart says FORT PIERCE — Stuart attorney Willie Gary has filed a federal lawsuit with a “Twist.” Gary and members of his law firm filed a lawsuit late Monday in federal court in Fort Pierce on behalf […]