Dr. Ivan Schwab has done at least two spectacular things. First he accepted an Ig Nobel Prize, in 2006, for explaining why woodpeckers don’t get headaches. Now he has produced a momentous book called Evolution’s Witness: How Eyes Evolved. Hank Campbell of Science 2.0 interviewed him: Eye Evolution Gets Its War And Peace We’ve been […]
Tag: evolution
Interview with Professor barefoot & pregnant
Claudia Dreyfus interviews Daniel Lieberman (who shared the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in physics, for or analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over) about his research on barefoot running and other things. It’s in the New York Times. Here’s a snippet: Among his academic peers, Daniel Lieberman, 47, is known as a “hoof and mouth” […]
Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution
Some people don’t like to think about evolution, but others so enjoy doing it that they think about the evolution of evolution. The model for this—really for modeling models of this, is a study written in 1999: “A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution,” Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and William A. Tozier, […]
How models evolve: 2 videos
Two quick videos showing makeup, lighting, photoshop and commerce in time-lapse action:
Head & eye, from Ig Nobel Prize winners
Two Ig Nobel Prize winners have new books out about the evolution of the human body, or portions thereof. Daniel Lieberman (2009 prize in physics for analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over)’s new book is The Evolution of the Human Head, ISBN 978-0674046368. Ivan Schwab‘s (2006 prize in ornithology for exploring and explaining […]
Ig Nobel winner examines your head
Daniel Lieberman, who (with two colleagues) was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2009 for determining why pregnant women don’t tip over, had a new book. It’s called The Evolution of the Human Head. Interviewed in the Boston Globe, he says: The head is about the size of a soccer ball, but almost everything — […]