Just as certain computer scientists and engineers dream of doing better garbage collection in computers (for a dream come true, see Microsoft’s “Fundamentals of Garbage Collection“), scientists and engineers at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne dream of doing better garbage collection in space. Dead satellites. Detritus from collisions between now-dead satellites and whatever slammed into them. Junk that […]
Tag: chocolate
Working Memory Across Nostrils
This week’s memorable cross-nostrils study of the week is: “Working Memory Across Nostrils,” Yaara Yeshurun, Yadin Dudai, and Noam Sobel, Behavioral Neuroscience, vol.122, 2008, pp.1031-1037. BONUS: Sobel did the blindfolded-humans-follow-a-chocolate-small-trail experiment pictured here]. He is also the inventor of the nose-controlled electric wheelchair. BONUS: Yudai performed the snakes-in-an-MRI experiment.
How useless a choco-pot?
“How useless is a chocolate teapot?” ask The Naked Scientists, who then answer the question to their own — and perhaps also to your — satisfaction, documenting it with photos and a video. (Thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing this to our attention.)
Sic Transit Peanut
Scientists have long engaged in a race to catch up with evil-doers who would slip forbidden substances to unsuspecting creatures. This study documents on little chapter in the history of that struggle: “Detection and Determination of Theobromine and Caffeine in Urine After Administration of Chocolate-Coated Peanuts to Horses,” T.M. Dyke and R.A. Sams, Journal of […]
Chocolates and intentions (continued)
Investigator Poul Robinson writes: Until today I gave gifts of chocolate unthinkingly — but no more! Dean Radin’s study [“Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood“], the highlight of this month’s mini-AIR, has got me thinking. I did some searching (google, not soul) and found that Dr. Radin says he is quite serious about his […]