Famous Monks with Bad Breath, Porn Research, Icky Cutesy Research Review, Missing Pieces Research Review, Amorous Ostriches and Exposure at Sea, and The Plastic Pink Flamingo. In episode #210, Marc Abrahams shows some unfamiliar research studies to Jean Berko Gleason, Melissa Franklin, and Richard Baguley. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. This episode was also aided and perhaps abetted by […]
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For sleep-and-monks-and-nuns enthusiasts
Rare is the study that focus on how monks and nuns sleep. One is: “Ring the Bell for Matins: Circadian Adaptation to Split Sleep by Cloistered Monks and Nuns,” Isabelle Arnulf [pictured here], Agnès Brion, Michel Pottier and Jean-Louis Golmard, Chronobiology International, Dec., 2011, Vol. 28, No. 10 , pp. 930-41. (Thanks to investigator Yvette […]
Modeling monks and a cafeteria (hydrology)
Tom Pagano explains “how to model monks going in and out of a cafeteria and how it is like a hydrological model“: The classic analogy for hydrology models is that soils hold and release water like a series of leaky buckets. But instead, let’s start by discussing how to model a cafeteria/mess hall/canteen for hungry meditating monks…. […]