A new German study snaps its fingers, metaphorically, at recent studies of human finger-wrinkling: Finger Wrinkling (2014, not gripping) “Water-Induced Finger Wrinkles Do Not Affect Touch Acuity or Dexterity in Handling Wet Objects,” Julia Haseleu, Damir Omerbašić equal, Henning Frenzel, Manfred Gross, Gary R. Lewin, PLoS ONE, 9(1), 2014, e84949. (Thanks to Achim Reinsdorf for […]
Tag: wrinkling
Emotional Gauging of Students via Forehead Wrinkle Extraction
It’s not always easy to gauge whether students have understood lesson content (or not). Perhaps an automated measuring system could be devised – measuring their forehead wrinkles for example? At least two scholarly texts are available for those interested in the possibilities offered by forehead wrinkle evaluation in the classroom. The first is provided by […]
Sheet-wrinkle Ig winner profiled
Ig Nobel Prize-winner L. Mahadevan (who studied how sheets become wrinkled) is profiled in the Times of India: …just another feather in Mahadevan’s cap. He has received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2009 and in 2007, he won the Ig-Nobel prize which is awarded for fun, outrageous or amusing innovations. “It’s nothing to be proud […]
Ig winner gets “genius” grant
L. Mahadevan, who shared the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize in physics, has just been awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. He won his Ig, together with Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled. The MacArthur Grant (of $500,000) honors that and related work. (The image here shows […]