“Human gelatine genes”, a phrase that has never managed to intrigue the general public (or anyone else), might now have its day in the sun. The phrase appears in a July 13, 2011 press release from the American Chemical Society. That press release also features today’s Headline of the Day: New method for making human-based […]
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The Turing Test and “Bill O’Reilly”
This video clip has been much in the news recently. We believe that people have misinterpreted its nature. Is the “man” speaking here really a thinking human being named Bill O’Reilly? Or is the “man” really a computer artfully built to look and sound like a “thinking” human? Behold the latest entry in the Turing […]
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 — […]
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 […]