There is a metaphor here, in this short (0:01:33) video, about how people decide what’s worth looking at: The filmmaker is named Malik. (HT @almuraisy)
Tag: scientist
Headline of the day: Sex After Fieldtrip
Today’s Headline of the Day is atop an article in Science Now: Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific First by Martin Enserink A U.S. vector biologist appears to have accidentally written virological history simply by having sex with his wife after returning from a field trip to Senegal. A study just released in Emerging […]
Legend of Chrystallographers’ Beards
Inspired by the Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men“, investigator Steve Dahms alerts us to a legend about chrystallographers’ beards. One account appears in the study: “Gerhard M.J. Schmidt, 1919-1971“, David Ginsberg, Israel Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 10,1972, pp. 59-72. [Schmidt is pictured here, at right.] The author writes: “Both as […]