Encyclopedia Sciplayer has made two more videos, each about a different Ig Nobel Prize winner: “Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get a Headache”: “How to take a blink-free photo”:
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In short, how to take a group photo with no blinks
Every Ig Nobel Prize celebrates something that makes people laugh, then think—each is a good, true, short story. An organization called Short Story, in South Korea, made this short video that tells the story of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for mathematics : The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for mathematics was awarded to Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of […]
Puzzling Experiment of the Day: Mock Crime Blink
Today’s Puzzling Experiment of the Day is described in this paper: “Detecting false intent using eye blink measures,” Frank M. Marchak [pictured here], Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (2013): 736. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Veridical Research and Design Corporation, Bozeman, MT, USA, explains: “Here we examined—across two […]