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- Is Two A Goup?
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Is ‘a pair’ big enough to be called ‘a group’? The tricky subject of dyads has recently been causing considerable professorial debate in the journal ‘ Small Group Research ’. (Note: the word ‘dyad ‘ is derived from the Greek ‘dýo’, meaning ‘two’.) ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 24 2012 - 12:06pm
- Dogs And DoggieBots- An Encounter
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How might real dogs react to robotic dogs? The Sony Corporation has been investigating. Researchers at its Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, which “… engages in fundamental research in cutting edge areas of science that are relevant for pushing the st ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 25 2012 - 10:55am
- The Great Pyramid- Did It Have An Elevator?
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… asks Peter C. Sundt, BSc. in the June 2010) of the journal Elevator World (page 114). Although the article is ‘subscribers only’, an earlier essay by the same author on broadly the same subject (with the same title) is available online here, via The Str ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 1 2012 - 1:39pm
- Icicles- Ideal And Otherwise
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“A complete theory of icicle shape, including tip growth, self-similarity and the ripple instability, is currently lacking.” Prompting professor Stephen W. Morris and Antony Szu-Han Chen from the Department of Physics, at the University of Toronto, Canada ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 3 2012 - 2:14pm
- Mustache Transplants- An Update
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It is believed that the first mustache transplants were performed by the late trichological pioneer Dr. Okuda in 1930’s Japan. Since then, considerable progress has been made – some of which is described by Dr. Damkerng Pathomvanich (pictured) of the DHT c ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 6 2012 - 7:35pm
- The Linguist Implications Of The Word "Uhm..."
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What does “Uh(m)” mean? Professional linguists from a selection of highly respected international academic institutions have pondered the question in some detail over the years, but now a new paper from Emanuel A. Schegloff, Professor Emeritus at the Depar ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 11 2012 - 9:55am
- Spotlght On The Nerd Report
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The word ‘ Nerd ’ is thought to have originated in the US in the early 1950s – but it took three full decades before a comprehensive academic paper describing ‘Nerdism’ appeared. As the authors of the study explained at the time: “It is not clear why a soc ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Aug 16 2012 - 10:21am
- Sailing on the Jurassic Coast
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The sailing event of the recent 2012 London Olympics were held at Weymouth, half-way along Dorset and East Devon’s famous Jurassic Coast. Thinks: Sources: Sailing picture: goc2012.culture.gov.uk; Plesiosaur LHL Digital Collections ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 20 2012 - 6:27am
- 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
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