This photo from General Electric shows a Nobel Prize winner and an eventual Ig Nobel Prize winner working together. GE describes it: “Thinking Outside the Cold Box: How a Nobel Prize Winner and Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Made the Clouds Snow at GE in the 1940s… Irving Langmuir, Bernard Vonnegut, and Vincent Schaefer are seeding a […]
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Dr. Altschuler on … Applied Ice Cream Headaches
Cluster Headaches are said to affect around 0.1% of the population and are characterised by very intense pain, usually on just one side of the head. The discomfort is so extreme that even the most experienced physicians might struggle to comprehend degree of suffering of the patient – unless, that is, they were also experiencing […]
Frigid contraints (British, mapped)
Vaguely in the tradition of the theatrical play “No Sex Please. We’re British” comes this monograph: “Dating constraints on the last British-Irish Ice Sheet: a map and database“, Hughes, A.L.C, Greenwood, S.L. and Clark, C.D., v2011, 2011, 156-183. 10.4113/jom.2011.1145.
Frozen Peas vs. Gel-Packs
In the absence of a purpose-made ice-pack or gel-pack, people sometimes grab a packet of frozen peas to cool-down an injury. But just how efficient is a pack of peas? Various research projects have undertaken experiments to find out. In 2005, for example, investigators from the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, […]