This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Suspicious eyes — In the year 2001, US president George W. Bush foreshadowed a hope that decades later would pervade the robotics industry. Bush stood next to Russian president Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Slovenia […]
Words for Food in Your Mouth, an Apple a Day, Eating the Shrew, an Epidemic of Penile Amputations, Reactions to Chicken Nuggets, Ig and Beyond, What Matters in NBA Games, Why Spaghetti, and What Your Gut Says Psychoanalytically. In episode #209, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Jean Berko Gleason, Chris Cotsapas, Kishore […]
Two reports about headphone jacks, appearing in the same year, raise possibilities. Here are portions of the two reports, side by side: Mark Wilson writes, in Fast Company magazine: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back Two years after Apple removed the iPhone’s headphone jack, life without it still sucks…. The Asian […]
The question “Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life?” anchors this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? — “Apple Consumption is Related to Better Sexual Quality […]
Apple’s new patent for (among other things) blocking photography by audience members is not a new idea. The idea harks back to — but does not mention — an earlier anti-paparazzi patent by Wilbert Leon Smith, Jr. and Keelo Lamance Jackson. Benjamin Boles, writing for the web site Thump, explains about Apple’s idea, in a report headlined “A […]
Join us on a highly-magnified “[…] exhilerating [sic] journey through an apple.” [courtesy MeBioS, KU Leuven, The Netherlands] “This movie shows the microstructure of an apple and was rendered from (microfocus) CT images of an apple. The images of the entire apple were obtained with an X-ray CT system at K.U.Leuven (MTM) and the images […]
A new “Mouth to Nose Merging System” (the crucial components of which can be seen in the diagram above) has been developed by a joint research team from L’UNAM Université and Université de Caen France. The researchers having noted that : “The relations between odour and texture notably are not very clear and results from […]