Jasmuheen explains, in this video interview from 2006, how she explains that she never eats food. A few years earlier, in the year 2000, Jasmuheen (formerly known as Ellen Greve) was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for literature, for her book “Living on Light,” which explains that although some people do eat food, they don’t ever really need to. BONUS: […]
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Extraocular Phototransduction: more than meets the eye? (part 2)
We recently drew attention to the 1998 discovery at Cornell regarding the possibility of tweaking one’s cicadian rhythms by shining a bright light at the back of one’s knees. But continuing research into extraocular (outside the eye) light stimuli has turned to the possibility of a more direct route. Why not shine a light directly […]
Extraocular Phototransduction: more than meets the eye? (part 1)
If you are unlucky enough to be suffering from the debilitating effects of long-haul jet-lag, you could try shining a very bright light into your popliteal fossae (the backs of your knees). The potential of this technique as a way of shifting the phase of one’s circadian clock was first described by professors Scott S. […]
XKCD: The physics of relativistic baseball
XKCD, Randall Munroe’s comic strip, today considers the question “What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?” Even if you find the game of baseball to be confusing or uninteresting, the answer might please you. The drawing below is but one detail: BONUS (for baseball historians […]