Posts tagged “science”
Helium Joke
Every now and then my mom – because she loves me like silly – sends me newspaper clippings from the comics section. I just got a particularly funny one from Frank and Ernest. Two microbes are reading the latest issue of BioWeek magazine and one says to the other, “There’s a cover story on helium.”
Whales
On whales and working out
Forensics
In a comment on the previous post, Sc0tt asked where he could find a copy of Chris’ thesis. I’m sorry to say that it’s not currently publicly available. You can ask Chris if he’ll send you one, I suppose. If you’re seriously interested in that sort of thing, though, I highly recommend reading Bones, by
Saw Marks
I have yet to mention that Chris has asked me to proofread his thesis. I’m a Supervisor. Not just a regular visor, mind you. A Supervisor. So that’s pretty cool. David V. Gagne, Supervisor What, exactly, does this mean? It means I am reading Evaluation of Saw Marks From Postmortem Dismemberment: A research project submitted
Separation
From the University of Florida’s Anthropology Department comes this article: Estimating the Ripple Effect of a Disaster. A related essay at Slate says, “According to their estimates, essentially all Americans — more than 80 percent of them — know someone who knows someone. We are all mourners at the second degree.” [link via Follow Me
Problems
There’s a fascinating article at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the sort of essay that makes you wonder about yourself. Just in case you weren’t already wondering. Or in case you thought you were
WTC
The University of Sydney’s Department of Civil Engineering has a detailed and informative account of why the World Trade Center collapsed. [link via JJ]
Football Physics
A University at Buffalo researcher hopes this week to put into place the final piece of the puzzle for a never-before-quantified phenomenon in football. After spending the past six years probing the physics of how a football travels during flight using computer simulations and the videotape of a single forward pass from a 1976 professional
Memory Loss
Wow! I can’t remember the last time I read something this scary.
Titanic
Did you know that if you have an extra $35,000 in your pocket you can visit the Titanic with National Geographic? How cool would that be? “By 1,000 feet, all traces of sunlight will be gone and you will be immersed in total darkness. To conserve power, the MIR submersibles run without external lights, however,