Humor
- Weekend Science: Cow Tipping Debunked For A New Generation
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When I first saw a new article about cow tipping, I bristled just a little. The last thing American culture needs is another flatlander telling real farmers whether or not cows fall over. But Jake Swearingen, Digital director at Modern Farmer, does a good ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2013 - 10:47am
- Facial Expressions During Lovemaking (a Study)
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“… everyday, spontaneous sexual behavior is a quintessentially private activity not open to public scrutiny.“ But not always. As evidenced by the work of an investigatory team from the Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, where J ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Sep 26 2013 - 12:55pm
- Supersymmetry In The Book Of Genesis
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In the beginning, Mother Nature created the universe and in it she put Quantum Mechanics. Mother Nature had formed out of the ground all the wild particles in the sky. She brought them to Quantum Mechanics to see what Quantum Mechanics would name them; and ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 3 2013 - 1:36pm
- Humming (everything You Ever Wanted To Know About It)
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Here is a (partial) overview of (some of) the recent academic literature on the subject of 'Humming' Security Humming-based human verification and identification “The experimental results show that linear prediction cepstral coefficients and per ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 1 2013 - 2:58pm
- Math- The Travelling Salesperson Problem- Solved By Pigeons (?)
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In the award-winning children’s book ‘ Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus ’ by Mo Willems, (Hyperion Books for Children, 2003) a persistent pigeon ‘asks, pleads, cajoles, wheedles, connives, negotiates, demands and uses emotional blackmail in attempts to g ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 7 2013 - 10:50am
- Q-Tips: The Danger
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“Cotton buds are commonly used to clean the ears, remove wax, in case of itching in the ear, aural toilet in discharging ears and some time as a habit.” – explain Suresh Kumar and Shamim Ahmed of the Department of ENT, at Liaquat University of Health Sc ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 15 2013 - 1:08pm
- Peculiar Scottish Mountaineering Disorder
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'A peculiar Scottish disorder' is described in the Scottish Medical Journal (SMJ), August 2011 vol. 56 no. 3, pp. 164-166 (by Doctor I. B. McIntosh.) “A highly contagious behavioural affliction is now endemic in highland areas of Scotland. Pret ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 21 2013 - 11:17am
- The Prevalence Of Bees In American Musical Recordings
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For the first time, a peer-reviewed comprehensive discography of US-based apical musical recordings has been assembled. (Think: bees, hives, honey, buzzing, stingers, &etc). Professor William Lewis Schurk (Sound Recordings Archivist of the Music Librar ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Oct 31 2013 - 9:58am
- Tortoises- Which Way Do They Prefer To Roll?
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If one were to overturn a tortoise, would it be more likely to right itself (i.e. get back on its feet) to the right or to the left? To find out, a joint research team from the Comparative Psychology Research Group, University of Padova, Italy and the B.R ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Nov 5 2013 - 8:47am
- Square Eggs- A Review Of Progress
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Through millions of years of evolution, the shape of an egg has evolved to an optimum – at least from a hen’s point of view. For some humans though, this shape is less than ideal – there are those who prefer instead the aesthetic appeal of a cuboid rathe ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Nov 21 2013 - 10:55am