Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
08 June 30: Anaesthesia
The 1 or 2% of people who are redheads may require as much as 20% more anaesthesia than blonds or brunettes.
08 May 10: IAT
The Implicit Association Test is based on the observation that we make connections much more quickly between pairs of ideas that are already related in our minds than we do between pairs of ideas that are unfamiliar to us. Try a computerized IAT at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.
08 March 27: Origami
More news from space: Japanese scientists and origami masters, headed by Shinji Suzuki, are aiming to launch a paper airplane from space to see if it can make it back to Earth.
08 March 26: Boomerang
In an unprecedented experiment, Japanese astronaut Takao Doi has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back.
December 14: Jersey
The state Senate has approved legislation that would make New Jersey the first state to abolish the death penalty since 1976.
December 10: Slovenia
It is possible to go on a unique 5km underground mountain bike ride in the Julian Alps of Slovenia.
December 9: Ratio
Researchers at the University of Aarhus, in Denmark, have studied the influence of stress on women in relation to male and female babies conceived. Results suggest that acute stress to a woman at the time of conception shifts the sex ratio towards girls. A more recent study at Aarhus suggests that the same is true of chronic stress.
December 2: 10,000
‘Where in the free world can one see 10,000 children dancing in synchronisation, dressed as eggs? Such weirdness makes North Korea, a basket-case state, a must for a certain sort of backpacker. Tourist visas have been available for years; there is even a Lonely Planet chapter on the country. Some 2,000 Westerners will visit in 2007 – a tiny number, but about four times the total in 2002.’
November 17: Dark
Astronomers do not know the nature of ‘dark matter’, mysterious material in the universe that exerts a gravitational pull, but does not emit nor absorb light.
August 26: Redheads
‘True redheads will be extinct by 2100, since carriers of the carrot-top gene are less and less likely to pair up in an age of global intermingling (a child usually needs a copy from each parent to get the red result).’
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