The Schrödingers katt science TV program celebrated some of Norway’s Ig Nobel Prize winners — and several other Ig Nobel Prize winners, too. They also interviewed me. Click on the image below, to be whisked to the Schrödingers katt web site and watch the entire episode: The featured Norwegian winners include: The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize for arctic science, awarded to Eigil Reimers and Sindre […]
Tag: appetite
What Eats What Where Near Singapore
Appetite is just part of this investigation of food and feeding: “Scavenging of dead invertebrates along an urbanization gradient in Singapore,” C.K.W. Tan [pictured here, right] and R.T. Corlett [pictured here, below], Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 5, no 2, 2011, pp. 138-145. the authors, then at National University of Singapore but now respectively at Oxford […]
Assessing cabbage snaps
“…participants could quantitatively estimate the degradation in freshness of the cabbage simply by looking at the presented images.” The images in question were a 32hr. time-lapse set of photos of a cabbage leaf. And the question in question was whether experimental participants would be able to accurately judge the appetizingly fresh appearance of the leaves […]