If these are really the 10 most absurd scientific papers from last year then published hard science has nothing, absurditywise, on published humanities. (I’d actually be interested in reading the results of “Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?”)
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Just as a follow-up to that last post, I noticed this morning some recent research which essentially proves that women find the same man more attractive if they see him sitting in an expensive car, than in a less expensive one. Men don’t care about what car a woman is in. (Fortunately for the women of Canada, I use my beat-up, high mileage Focus to help mask the blinding brilliance of my attractiveness.)
(0 Comments)Speaking of battle-of-the-sexes banter fodder, and academic papers, you did all see that article last week about the researchers who wanted to compare the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users? You know, the one where they had to cancel the research because they couldn’t find any men in their 20s who had never been exposed to porn…
(0 Comments)Bias in my favour
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009You know the punchline: “I don’t make the rules, I just enjoy them.” I pull this out every now and then when Dr. Wife points out to me some way in which our society is constructed to make things better for men, while giving women the less pleasant end of the stick.
I’m sure I’ll get [...]
It just occurred to me that risk and entropy are the same thing
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009I have an amateur interest in economics that I indulge from time to time, primarily by reading economics-focused blogs. While I was doing that this week I was interested to see Brad DeLong (whose blog is definitely worth following) point to a discussion from the Economist about compensation for bankers and the relation between that [...]
A continuous moving on
Monday, August 10th, 2009Have I previously discussed my enjoyment of the word flux? I don’t think I have.
In fact, I like the word enough that I’ve just officially adopted it for the next year at Adopt-A-Word.
As the word’s new guardian, I will, of course, be traveling the web to ensure the word is not misused, or under-used.
(This is [...]
My Awesome Wife, Part 2
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Having posted that, it occurs to me that I may still be projecting a picture that doesn’t show the entirety of Trish’s academic awesomeness.
I am given to understand that most doctoral students have a very small number of publications, sometimes zero, during their doctoral programs–most are focused on their theses.
Trish, on the other hand, has [...]
Natal Day Link Post
Monday, August 3rd, 2009Holiday Monday has kept me too busy to properly blog, so you get a bit of a tab-closing list instead.
I’m not sure that it covers anything new, but the piece from More Intelligent Life (the quarterly from the Economist) about authors and drinking was a fun read anyway.
I’ve seen some stories about tough people in [...]
Reinforcing My Anti-Powerpoint Stance
Monday, July 27th, 2009Of all the people with whom I’ve had in person discussions about the plague that is PowerPoint, no one is as vociferous in their denigration of that application, and the kinds of thinking and communication it encourages than I1 am.
Thus, it is somewhat rewarding to see more and more articles that seem to be trying [...]
Language and the Shaping Of Thought
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009While I was doing my undergraduate studies, in addition to my Engineering degree, and my minor in Philosophy, I also pursed a number of “options”, notably including an option in Cognitive Studies. Both the mechanics of thinking and the philosophy of cognition and identity were (and remain) of great interest to me.1
One of the topics [...]
Monday Night Miscellany
Monday, April 6th, 2009Like real-time strategy games? Like science fiction? How about a real-time strategy game where you (and your units) can time travel. Imagine sending future units back to fight alongside themselves against an enemy in the past… you thought keeping track of your units and tech tree was a headache, wait for the fourth dimension. Maybe [...]
Eight links make a post
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009And now, for another exciting post of links and short comments:
I’ve always been aware of having been gifted with a pretty powerful attention span. I have always kind of assumed it came from becoming a reader at a very young age, but I guess it’s equally plausible that things are actually ordered the other way [...]
Reality Shock
Monday, February 2nd, 2009It’s pretty common these days for me to read something and react with “Wow, that’s like something from a science fiction story I read X years ago”. In addition to this being common, I’ve also noticed that X is decreasing.
Some examples, just of things I read in the last day or two:
Teleportation. OK, admittedly, it’s [...]
My nocturnally-biased suprachiasmatic nuclei
Monday, January 19th, 2009For at least 20 years now, I’ve known that I’m both happiest, and most productive, with a schedule where I am awake until the wee hours of the morning (between 2 and 4AM), and sleep until roughly the crack of noon. I haven’t been able to achieve that often, and its been more than four [...]
All that foil-folding work for nothing…
Monday, January 12th, 2009At some past jobs, although not so much at this one, I’ve been the guy that my co-workers referred to as “tinfoil hat security guy”. I was the one who worried about cookies and tracking before most people did (and well before we all just gave up because Google knows everything about us), who raved [...]
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