Humor
- The Psychoacoustics of Mongolian Gerbils
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Mongolian Gerbil psychoacoustics have been under investigation for several years now- particularly by Dr. Joan Sinnott, Endowed Professor of Research at the Psychology Department, University of South Alabama, US. And now, for the first time (?) an experim ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Feb 15 2012 - 10:45pm
- Recalculation of giraffe height
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There are two ways to determine the height of the tallest possible running, breathing organism on planet Earth – one is to measure it – the other to calculate it from scratch. The groundwork for the calculation was performed in the 1980’s by Professor W.H ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Feb 15 2012 - 10:45pm
- Robot dogs and asymmetric tail wagging
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A research team from the Department of Biology at the University of Victoria, Canada, have, for the first time, investigated the behavioural responses of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) to the asymmetric tail-wag of a life-sized robotic-dog model – one w ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Feb 16 2012 - 11:26am
- Researchers- maybe don't mention the polywater
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The Polywater debacle has been called ‘one of the most famous mistaken scientific research programs of the past half-century’. It was initially feared that the USSR’s discovery of highly viscous polywater, which froze at −40 °C and boiled at 150 °C, might ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Feb 17 2012 - 10:24am
- 'Bond Girls'- and their survival prospects
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What are the survival prospects for female characters in the James Bond movies? A new research project from Cleveland State University and Kent State University performed a quantitative content analysis for 195 female characters in 20 out of the 22 Bond fi ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Feb 17 2012 - 12:48pm
- Inappropriate odors- the benefits (or otherwise)
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“The effect odor has on a consumer’s experience of the product is still not yet understood.” Prompting investigators at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands to set up two experiments in order to clarify the possible influences of odor on cons ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Mar 1 2012 - 11:22am
- Cheese versus Time
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Can the basic attributes of a cheese remain stable over half a millennium or so? Fortunately, written details of the visual, olfactory, taste and texture characteristics of Parmigiano-Reggiano™ cheese can be traced back as far as the Middle Ages. ...
Blog Post - Martin Gardiner - Mar 2 2012 - 11:32am
- Crunching Apples In Poland
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“Sound generated during eating of apples plays important role in its texture evaluation by consumers.” ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 3 2012 - 10:51am
- Soccer And Its Dangers: Score-Celebration Injuries
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“Exaggerated celebrations after making a goal, such as sliding, piling up, and tackling a team-mate when racing away, can result in serious injury.” Bülent Zeren, MD from the Center for Orthopaedics and Sports Traumatology, Karsiyaka, Izmir, Turkey, and H ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 5 2012 - 4:03pm
- Measuring Leg-Length Attractiveness (Using Stick Figures)
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“In Western culture there are countless examples of reference to female legs as a factor in sexual attraction”. ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Mar 7 2012 - 11:29am
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