Human energy expenditure can be measured in meaningful units, is one possible message of this May 1938 article in Popular Science: Meter Gauges Work in Bread-Slice Units How rapidly exercise uses up the energy in the food you eat is graphically demonstrated by a device called the “bread-o-meter” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. […]
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Macroscopic Inspection of Ape Feces: Quantification How?
A look at how to take a gross look at the output of apes: “Macroscopic inspection of ape feces: What’s in a quantification method?” Caroline A. Phillips and William C. McGrew, American Journal of Primatology, epub 2014 Jan 30. (Thanks to investigator Gwinyai Masukume for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at University of […]
Measures must be taken, maybe. But what do they mean?
Hadas Shema muses on the importance, or lack of importance, of certain new measurements — measurements of the supposed “impact” of a published study. She writes, in Scientific American‘s Information Culture blog: When in trouble or in doubt, invent new words. We have bibliometrics and scientometrics from the Age of Print. Now they are joined […]
“Why are British women’s breasts getting bigger?”
This week’s Headline of a Past Week honor goes to a May 16, 2010 headline in The Observer (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.): Why are British women’s breasts getting bigger? Alice Fisher wrote the article, waxing most analytical in this passage: Do you know how to work out a […]