Paper airplanes are a tradition at the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, dating back to the ceremony’s earliest years. Technology has now advanced to the point where it necessary, for safety, to place a technological limitation on ceremonial flight. An inventive little tiny leap in electromechanical engineering has brought powered flight — that is powered […]
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Rock/Paper/Scissors/Equations
If you like equations, here’s just part of the fun you’ll find in the newly published paper “Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game” (arXiv:1404.5199): (Thanks to Florian Gallwitz for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Rock, paper, scissors, robot, monkey BONUS: Rock, scissors, monkey
Gibberish scholarship happily fills the cracks, again
Comes another reminder that some scholarly journals, like some people, are less careful than others. [Another way to put this: if the ONLY thing you know about a report is that it was published in “a scholarly journal”, then you know almost nothing about it.] Richard van Noorden reports, in Nature: The publishers Springer and IEEE are […]
Rolled-up bits of paper in her head
On paper, human anatomy can seem simple, especially in books with titles such as Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. But… Made of paper—quilled (rolled) paper—it most certainly is not. Not in the example here, anyway. The Collosal blog features some of the work of Lisa Nilsson, including this photo of one of her heads: (Thanks to […]