The “World’s First Phone with Ultrasonic Mosquito Away Technology” is on the market in India. We were curious about this, so we consulted Bart Knols, a mosquito expert who received the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology “for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese […]
Tag: teenagers
Battle over a library’s use of an Ig Nobel Prize-winning teenager-repellant
People are displeased that a Welsh town’s library installed an Ig Nobel Prize-winning device designed to repel teenagers. BACKGROUND: The 2006 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant — a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later […]
Teenagers doing nothing – the upside
The next time you see a group of adolescents just hangin’ out at a bus stop, rather than grumbling to yourself ‘Why don’t they do something useful?’, you might ask instead ‘Could it be that “doing nothing” is a healthy teenage behaviour?’ This is exactly the question posed by postdoc researcher Maria Patsarika (currently at […]
Gormless? Teens in London, examined
If you’re not a teenager in London and it’s not the late 1990s, and if you’re wondering about the use and usage of certain intensifiers who those where were teenagers in London in the late 1990s, here’s a study to consult: “He was really gormless–She’s bloody crap: Girls, boys and intensifiers,” Anna-Brita-Stenstrom, in Out of […]
Getting a LEGO up, on a dime
This video comes from a camera attached to a homebuilt device that rose to great heights. The Guardian describes it in a short paragraph (and also, elsewhere, in more detail): Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras […]
Puzzle: Hoped to Learn What? Teens & Music
Today’s Puzzle of the Day concerns a newly published study. The question is: What, if anything, did the researchers hope to learn by doing this research? The study is: “Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Determine Media Use by Individuals With and Without Major Depressive Disorder,” Brian A. Primack, MD, EdM, MS [pictured here], et al., […]