Jasmuheen, winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in literature, has yet another video in which she explains how to live one’s life without eating food, provided that one gets plenty of sunlight. She gets right down to business, more or less, at about the 1:00 minute mark: Jasmuheen was awarded her Ig Nobel Prize […]
Tag: light
Crayons under a spectrophotometer
Photographer Mark Meyer did a partial analysis of his crayons: Starting with a fresh box of twenty-four Crayola crayons I measured each with an i1 pro spectrophotometer to create a set of spectral power distributions (SPD) of the reflected light…. This is what a box of crayons looks like broken into it’s spectral components. (HT Bob O’Hara)
Effect of zebra stripes on horseflies
In a relative sense, zebra stripes repel horseflies. That’s the latest discovery reported by Gábor Horváth [pictured here], who discovered that white horses attract fewer flies, and that Vikings knew a thing or two about how to use light for ship navigation. For details, see the study: “Polarotactic tabanids find striped patterns with brightness and/or polarization modulation least […]
A shorts course in cooking, inspired by neutrinos
Len Fisher [pictured here], who was awarded the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit, has advice for a scientist who is confident to his very shorts that the neutrinos-travel-faster-than-light reports will turn out to be in error. Dr. Fisher wrote a letter that’s published in The Guardian (on Nov 25): If […]