L. Mahadevan, who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in physics for studying how sheets get wrinkled, wrote a loving tribute, a few months ago, to his teacher Joseph Keller [pictured here]. Keller is a two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner. The entire essay appears in SIAM News. Here are snippets: Joe Keller’s contributions to the […]
Tag: DNA
Scientists speak up: “On the immortality of television sets”
By weird tradition, scientists use dull, obscure language when they criticize other scientists. Six scientists chose to stray outside that tradition. In a new paper, they criticize the people who did “The ENCODE Project: ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements”. They pull few, if any, punches. Thanks to Rolf (“pull no punches”) Zwaan for bringing this to our attention: […]
Raymer untangles string-tangling for you
Dorian Raymer explains, in this video, his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about how and why bunches of string will inevitably become tangled:
The DNA plush doll project
Jun Axup invites you to help her create a plush equivalent to the blueprints for life: (Thanks to investigator Richard Rae for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: The unrelated study “DNA chips: promising toys have become powerful tools“