This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine is about the new Ig Nobel Prize winners. The Feedback column was created and edited by John Hoyland. I first knew Feedback (and John’s work) as a subscriber to New Scientist. Every year the column would have an especially fun and interesting writeup of the new Ig […]
Are you one of those people who laughs every time you see yourself in a mirror? If you are (or even if you’re not) you may be interested in a project presented at the International Multimedia Conference, 2007. A Dutch research team assembled a computerised camera/display system which emulated a mirror – but with built-in […]
From New Scientist’s Feedback column: THE tea room in the Caulfield School of Information Technology, part of Monash University in Victoria, Australia, has a fine collection of higher degree theses. They are, Tom Peachey tells us, all in pristine condition and locked behind glass. All pristine, that is, except one that has paper damage and […]
New Scientist’s Feedback column cogitates: On 30 January, we reported on the fat content of Cadbury’s Mini Rolls. Now Rod Costigan sends us his thoughts about another Cadbury product, Fry’s Turkish Delight. The packaging of this “exotic taste sensation” boasts that it is “60 per cent less fat*, and always has been”. Rod says he […]
