Can reading a ‘stupid story’ make you behave less intelligently (more stupidly)? Assoc. Prof. Dr. Markus Appel (pictured) has examined this question in a recent experimental study at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Institut für Pädagogik und Psychologie, Österreich. 81 participants read a story about an extremely unintelligent right-wing soccer hooligan dressed as a skinhead […]
Month: July 2011
Resonance: Aerobic exercisers shake skyscraper
Resonance is a simple physics concept (which can be expressed in lovely mathematics). Two Korean news reports tell about a recent example: Aerobic exercise blamed for tremor at Techno-Mart A form of aerobic exercise performed by dozens of people caused the vertical vibration felt in certain floors at Techno-Mart, a 39-story shopping mall in Gwangjin-gu, […]
Katrin Kania joins Hair Club (LFHCfS)
Katrin Kania has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). H.J. Hopkins, who nominated her, says: Katrin has recently completed her PhD in the methods of construction of European Medieval garments but I know her as one of the two organiser of textilforum, a European workshop of historic textiles and experimental archaeology. The workshop was set up […]
Karyn Bischoff joins Hair Club (LFHCfS)
Karyn Bischoff has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: Although I did “locks of love” a dozen years ago, I have had luxuriant flowing hair for most of my career as a veterinarian and toxicologist–and in my line of work it hasn’t been easy. My hair has been yanked by cats, munched […]