Ig-Nobel-winning work, in some cases, is just one step in pursuing an idea down a long path. “Effect of Petting a Dog on Immune System Function,” C.J. Charnetski, S. Riggers, and F.X. Brennan, Psychological Reports, vol. 95, no. 3, part 2, December 2004, pp. 1087–91 [AIR 15:4]. Charnetski and Brennan, who shared the 1997 Ig […]
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Gender-sussing of kitty
A study studies people who have, and some who have not, studied cats: “Identification of Gender In Domestic-Cat Faces With and Without Training: Perceptual Learning of a Natural Categorization Task,” Paul C. Quinn, Vanessa Palmer, and Alan M. Slater, Perception, vol. 28, no. 6, 1999, pp. 749–63. [AIR 15:4] (Thanks to investigator Morton Fisk for […]
Solution to Last Month’s Puzzler 15:3
Questions 114-242 in part A of last month’s puzzler all pertain to the study “Trails and Tentacular Impressions of Orthoconic Cephalopods,” Rousseau H. Flower, Journal of Paleontology, vol. 29, no. 5, September 1955, pp. 857–67. Question 122 is an exception. Due to a misprint, Question 122 refers to Question 53402, which does not exist. It […]
PubMed Goes to the Movies!
Why see the film when you can read the article? by Robert E. Pyatt Ph.D. Assistant Laboratory Director Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, Ohio This is a comparison of classic films and science articles that share the same name. The movie facts come from the Internet Movie Database (www.IMDB.com). Information about the science articles comes from […]