This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here’s how each of them ends: Sing it loud—… One implication from that intensive Hong Kong experiment: most karaoke singers manage to keep the quality of their singing fairly constant, no matter what. Kinetic excitement— … Then the word “kinetics” takes centre stage, […]
Tag: lint
Magazine issue 15:2—special Navel Lint issue
The Mar/Apr 2009 issue (vol. 15, no. 2) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) just went out. It’s a special Navel Lint issue, with research reports about navel lint, The Okajima / Fujinami navel lint invention; the 374-word oath; Life and De’Eath; the coming and going of cello scrotum; Guéguen and the goad […]