Entries Tagged as 'science'

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?

When Fritz asked the players which violins they’d like to take home, almost two-thirds chose a violin that turned out to be new. She’s found the same in tests with other musical instruments. “I haven’t found any consistency whatsoever,” she says. “Never. People don’t agree. They just like different things.” In fact, the only statistically [...]

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Why Business Needs More Random Experiments

The “hard problems” are advertising, pricing, and less defined processes such as new product introductions, he said. “These are activities that usually go on in a firm without any real, accurate quantitative ways of measuring whether or not what you’re doing is working,” Levitt said. “Pricing may be the best example of all,” he said. [...]

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Mad Science

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Sunday, November 28th, 2010

That Mitchell and Webb Look : Proof of no God

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Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Dana Carvey is…Darwin

via examiner.com Posted via email from crasch’s posterous

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Mad Scientists

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Saturday, March 13th, 2010

EroticMadScience.com » A Thaumatophile Manifesto

via eroticmadscience.com Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness, And strengthen Man with his own mind… –George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Prometheus“ (1816) Posted via web from crasch’s posterous

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Scientists levitate stoned mouse

Mice Levitated in Lab The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something. “It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented,” [...]

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

This is the Question

The Science of When to Get Married When Charles Darwin wrote “This is the Question,” a set of notes he drafted between 1837 and 1838, he was not pondering finches. “This is the Question” represented the evolutionary theorist’s attempt to logically evaluate whether he should marry his girlfriend, Emma Wedgwood.

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081023/lf_nm_life/us_norway_eye Transplanted cornea in use for record 123 years OSLO (Reuters Life!) – Bernt Aune’s transplanted cornea has been in use for a record 123 years — since before the Eiffel Tower was built. “This is the oldest eye in Norway — I don’t know if it’s the oldest in the world,” Aune, an 80-year-old [...]