Joe Eaton reports in the Berkeley Daily Planet: Wild Neighbors: Woody Has the Last Laugh A few years back I wrote about the bestowal of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine on UC-Davis ophthalmology professor Ivan Schwab [pictured here] for his explanation of why woodpeckers don’t get headaches…. Just last month, though, two UC-Berkeley researchers, […]
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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 — […]
Off-With-Their-Heads Research News
Today’s Icky Research Item award (with echoes from earlier French and British work—see below) goes to this new Dutch study: “Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’“, Clementina M. van. Rijn, Hans Krijnen, Saskia Menting-Hermeling, Anton M. L. Coenen, PLoS ONE 6(1): e16514. (Thanks to investigator and LFHCfS member Holly Brothers […]
The influence of Head on acting
Sam Shuster adds, more or less, to the legend of Lord Brain and Dr. Head (the former of whom succeeded the latter, after a gap, as editor of the journal Brain, as we described yesterday): My story is about the guy who taught me neurology, who was a little younger than Brain, and who, when […]