With the curling competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics about to get underway, what better time to look at the work of Brett A. Marmo, Mark-Paul Buckingham, and Jane R. Blackford of the School of Engineering & Electronics and the Centre for Materials Science & Engineering, at The University of Edinburgh, UK, who have performed […]
Tag: Olympics
Breakthrough: “It is in fact a gesture of triumph”
Today’s Heavily Promoted Science-Related Study of the Day (HFSRSD) is described in this press release from its publisher: Evidence for a nonverbal expression of triumph Winning Olympic athletes display of triumph is a globally recognised gesture Many would assume that the positive feelings felt by an athlete after a win would be that of pride, however, […]
Reflections from Darwin’s beard
Ed Theriot, co-author of the classic article “The Taxonomy of Barney“, writes after seeing a web site about Darwin’s beard: Musing on stuff that is not necessarily clearly connected to anything else: My dad and I were duck hunting one morning in South Louisiana. A cold front had just passed. The sun was not yet […]