Humor
- What hasn’t changed since 1969?
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Neil Armstrong changed the way we think of ourselves – but, oddly, not the way we think of the Moon, writes Daniel Hannan on Telegraph Blogs. But what I particularly like is the comment by one Maria Kay: I've toured the USS Hornet, now retired in Ala ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 27 2012 - 4:21am
- A Philosopher Asks: “Is Eating People Wrong?”
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The question is posed, and then answered, by Jonathan Harrison, former chair of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK, in his online essay “Is Eating People Wrong?” The professor points out that- “Animals that can be eaten are often better taken ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 30 2012 - 10:01am
- Progress In Unconstrained Ear Recognition
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“Ears are a particularly appealing approach to noncontact biometrics because they are relatively constant over a person’s life and are unaffected by expressions, unlike faces.” ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Sep 3 2012 - 3:27pm
- Forget The Hair Of The Dog, Have A Bacon Sandwich?
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Having recently graduated college, I can recall on more than one occasion waking up in the morning with a pounding headache, insatiable thirst, and intensely nauseous, regretting that one-cocktail-too-many (I'm sure most of you reading this can sympat ...
Article - Eve Hardy - Sep 21 2012 - 6:53am
- The Taste Of A Trombone
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“Our results raise important questions about our representation of tastes and flavors and could also lead to applications in the marketing of food products.”- say a research team who have been investigating possible associations between flavors and variou ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Sep 17 2012 - 11:24am
- Falsetto (with Helium)
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Does subglottal resonance have a significant influence on register transition when singing falsetto? To find out, investigators at the University of Iowa decided on an innovative approach – involving helium. Or, more accurately, Helox (a.k.a. Heliox) a mix ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Sep 24 2012 - 11:17am
- Male Nipple Repositioning And The Golden Ratio
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For aesthetic reasons, plastic surgeons are sometimes required to re-position male nipples – after dramatic weight-loss for example. In such a case they are presented, in effect, with a substantially blank canvas. But the presently accepted methods for ca ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 1 2012 - 1:21am
- The Functions Of "yeah" (when Creaky)
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“Considerable work exists to describe the functions of yeah.” explain authors Chad D. Nilep and colleague Tamara Grivičić from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado. And there has also been some academic research investigating the so ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 8 2012 - 10:28am
- Karaoke Anxiety- An Exploration
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Is karaoke a passing fad? Kevin Brown PhD. Associate Professor of Theatre History, Theory, Criticism, Performance Studies, New Media, Non-Western Theatre, and Popular Culture at the University of Missouri, US. believes not. For his doctoral dissertation, h ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 11 2012 - 10:43am
- Investigating The Implications Of Sugar Pigs
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A recent edition of ‘M/C – A Journal of Media and Culture’ features one of the very few, perhaps the only, fully blind, peer-reviewed academic papers on sugar pigs. Author Toni Risson, at the University of Queensland, Australia, first defines sugar-piggin ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 17 2012 - 10:06am