Ig Nobel Physics Prize winner Mahadevan and his colleagues have demonstrated how to produce seemingly intelligent behavior with the head of a toothbrush. The Physics arXiv blog summarizes the study, in a few words: Toothbrushes, BristleBots, and the Nature of Intelligence: Fix a vibrating motor to the head of a toothbrush and you have an […]
Tag: behavior
About-Face on Face Shape?
A new study about faces implies than an old study about faces (which we wrote about way back when) should not be taken at face value: “Lack of Support for the Association between Facial Shape and Aggression: A Reappraisal Based on a Worldwide Population Genetics Perspective,” Jorge Gómez-Valdés, Tábita Hünemeier, Mirsha Quinto-Sánchez, Carolina Paschetta, Soledad […]
Honestly: Ig Nobel winner’s new book about dishonesty
Ig Nobel Prize winner Dan Ariely has a new book out. It’s called The Honest Truth About Dishonesty — How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves. Catch him live on his book tour (which today arrives in first Cambridge, then Boston, Massachusetts) Ariely shared (with Rebecca L. Waber, Baba Shiv and Ziv Carmon) the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize […]
Sneaking behaviour in the dusky frillgoby Bathygobius fuscus
Want to know more about the sneaking behaviour in the dusky frillgoby Bathygobius fuscus? You are in luck: “Large- and small-size advantages in sneaking behaviour in the dusky frillgoby Bathygobius fuscus,” Takeshi Takegaki, Takashi Kaneko and Yukio Matsumoto, Naturwissenschaften, Volume 99, Number 4, 285-289. “Sneaking tactic, a male alternative reproductive tactic involving sperm competition, is […]