“Our experience of explaining polarimetry to the general public is that they frequently ask how molecules rotate light, which is difficult to explain using non-technical language. Therefore we were keen to find an analogous large scale system which mimicked the polarimeter and used everyday left- and right-handed objects.” – explain Claire Saxon, Scott Brindley, Nic […]
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The ever-intriguing Twist of Consumer Research
Heads turn when they see the phrase “Contact: Mary-Ann Twist” on a press release, because the minds in the brains in many of those heads know there’s a good chance the press release heralds a new discovery reported in the pages of The Journal of Consumer Research. Mary-Ann Twist is managing editor of same. Here […]
Yet another side to the scrotal asymmetry story
There is a new (new to us, anyway) twist in the scrotal asymmetry story: a new form of underwear, offered for sale under the description “String Latéral Flash Bleu Alter”. The most recent, and most celebrated, part of the saga was the awarding in 2002 of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine to Chris McManus of University College […]
Chubby Checker, the “Chubby Checker”, and the Ig Nobel Prize
The TCPalm web site, in Florida, reports: Chubby Checker’s federal lawsuit has sexual twist, Gary law firm in Stuart says FORT PIERCE — Stuart attorney Willie Gary has filed a federal lawsuit with a “Twist.” Gary and members of his law firm filed a lawsuit late Monday in federal court in Fort Pierce on behalf […]
Twisty Tape in a Tube, in Confab
Today’s twisty tale is a study about twisted tape in tubes: “Heat Transfer Enhancement Through The Round Tube By Twisted Tape,” Shambhu Kumar, Pitambar Gadhave, V.N. Kapatkar, Mechanica Confab, vol. 1. no. 2, November 2012, pp. pp. 11-17. Thanks to Retraction Watch for alerting us to the existence of CONFAB, the journal’s publisher, and for […]