Spotlight on Chinese Butt Lifting Research

The International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID)  provides an idea-exchange and discussion platform for the world’s engineers and academia to share cutting-edge information, address the hottest issue in computational intelligence and design, explore new technologies, exchange and build upon ideas. The 2013 symposium will take place in late October, in Hangzhou, China, To […]

Nonverbal Givens (Lawns and Yawns)

One of the key (B-Team) advisors to Sandia Lab’s report into Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant  [see : Atomic Berms, previous Improbable article] was David B. Givens, Ph.D., now Director of the Center for Nonverbal Studies, and lecturer at the School of Professional Studies at […]

Cool way to begin a science story (jeans)

The Surprising Science blog gave a mighty cool beginning to this report: The Myth of the Frozen Jeans Levi Strauss advises freezing your jeans to kill the germs that make them smelly, thereby saving the water you’d use in washing them. Don’t bother, says Stephen Craig Cary, a University of Delaware expert on frozen microbes, who wrote to us from Antarctica….