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 — […]
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Human Oscillation Savored & Explained
Everyone oscillates, one way and another. We vibrate, we hum, we bounce. We have our ups and downs. Some of this oscillation attracts the attention of a researcher named Tainsh. In 1972, Michael A Tainsh published a monograph called Oscillation of Human Performance as a Personality Measure, in the journal Perceptual and Motor Skills. Tainsh […]
How many microbes on/in a person?
Moelselio Schaechter and Stanley Maloy consider an old, and increasingly good question in the Small Things Considered blog: How often have you heard it said, or seen it stated in writing, that we carry ten times more microbial cells than cells of our own? We don’t dispute this figure, at least not as a ballpark […]