Perhaps your thoughts will be swayed by the argument made in this study: “Benefits of Swaying While Standing to Higher Selective Attention in Goal-Directed Visual Tasks,” Anke Hua, Mélen Guillaume, Sergio T. Rodrigues, Fabio A. Barbieri, and Cédrick T. Bonnet, Human Movement Science, vol. 99, February 2025, article 103318. The authors explain: “Overall, our finding […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Cosplay coral-ation — Getting anyone, anyone at all, to notice what you have discovered is a problem for almost every scientist. (It’s a problem also for almost anyone anywhere who discovers almost anything.) Mark […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Southern hair whorls — Three northern hemisphere scientists – Marjolaine Willems, Quentin Hennocq and Roman Hossein Khonsari in Paris, France – teamed up with a southern hemisphere scientist – Juan José Cortés Santander in Santiago, Chile – for […]
Not all that many academic studies have examined the possibilities of abductive inference with regard to sagging pants [sagging trousers (UK)]. There are exceptions though. Professor Marcia Morgado of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa has a paper in the journal Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion (Volume 2 Issue 2-3, September 2015) which: “[…] explores […]