A study studies people who have, and some who have not, studied cats: “Identification of Gender In Domestic-Cat Faces With and Without Training: Perceptual Learning of a Natural Categorization Task,” Paul C. Quinn, Vanessa Palmer, and Alan M. Slater, Perception, vol. 28, no. 6, 1999, pp. 749–63. [AIR 15:4] (Thanks to investigator Morton Fisk for […]
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Why Some People Prefer Pickle Juice
“Why Some People Prefer Pickle Juice: The Research of Dr. Richard P. Lifton,” Peter M. Gayed, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 80, no. 4, December 2007, pp. 159–63. The author, at Yale University School of Medicine, begins: Dr. Richard Lifton has seen patients who crave nothing more than pickle juice. (That’s an excerpt […]
Hands in the Pockets
“Hands in the Pockets,” Notes and Queries, vol. 6, no. 142, 1852, p. 54 (That’s an excerpt from the article “Questions About Pockets,” Published in AIR 13:4.)
Penetrating Insight
“Rate of Penetration of a Porcupine Spine,” Albert R. Shadle and Donald Po-Chedley, Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 30, no. 2, May 1949, pp. 172–3 (http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1375267). The authors report that: During the examination of one of the porcupines in the vivarium of the University of Buffalo, the animal became excited, and, as a result of its […]