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Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Feb 17 2013 - 9:15pm

Human-like Laughter Generator

The Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) has attempted construction of a ‘Synthetic Laughter Generator’ – which could be of use as a responder to their ‘ Automatic Sarcasm Recognizer ’ previously described. ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Feb 18 2013 - 9:58am

Powered Pogo Stick Research Progress

It seems that the first US patent for an internal-combustion powered ‘Pogo’ stick was issued to inventor R.J. Mays back in 1950. The jumping machine was intended to run on gasoline, and, according its creator was “…highly efficient and amusing in operatio ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Feb 19 2013 - 11:29am

Smiling And Its Functions

What are the functions of smiling, specifically, the functions of smiling in relation to laughter? Dr. Markku Haakana [pictured here, not smiling], from the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, at the University of Helsinki, Finlan ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Feb 25 2013 - 11:17am

Art Appreciation In Java Sparrows

Professor Shigeru Watanabe, presently Project Leader for Keio University’s Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility has extended the study of avian art appreciation with his participation in a project probing pictorial preferences of Padda or ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Feb 26 2013 - 11:12am

It's The Stupidty, Stupid

Martin A. Schwartz is Professor of Microbiology and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. The professor draws attention to the importance of stupidity in scientific research in his recent article for Seismological Research Letters – Januar ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Feb 28 2013 - 11:09am

Yodeling- The Science

Dr. Timothy Elbert Wise   is not only a joint-program leader of both the Popular Music and Recording and Popular Musicology degrees at the University of Salford, UK, but is also one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history and physiology of yode ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 6 2013 - 10:58am

Can People Laugh At Themselves- Study

“…there is no authoritative definition of the sense of humor, and it is also not yet clear what ‘laughing at oneself’ is, or if it even actually occurs in people’s everyday behavior.” ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 21 2013 - 9:06am

Oodles Of Vague Non-numerical Quantifiers

Cross-disciplinary  academic progress in vagueness has recently been augmented  with a paper from Prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková CSc. at Palacký University, in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The professor has authored one of the very few papers to examine and co ...

Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 29 2013 - 10:22am

The compelling case against the universe!

A ground breaking paper has been published in the journal of comparative irrelevance which shows the Lambda CDM model is wrong.  It's all in the numbers.. This theory explains everything better than LCDM. http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.7476 ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 1 2013 - 12:48am