Joshua Bamford has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says: I am a cognitive anthropologist, studying the evolutionary functions of music and dance in Homo sapiens. Since moving to Finland, I have been investigating the effect of passive exposure to heavy metal music on hair growth, finding positive results. Joshua […]
It’s complicated and yet it’s simple. A person called average_joe_mcc made this video in which he explains the Ig Nobel Prizes by holding his smartphone in one hand, focusing the phone’s camera on his computer screen and on the fingers of his other hand, as he reads aloud the words that are on the computer […]
Silent bared-teeth and rapid facial mimicry come to the fore, in this new study about what can happen when two participants face off during sex, when and if those two participants are bonobos. The study is: “SEX in Bonobos: The Intensity of Sexual Stimulation Sharply Drops After Facial Mimicry,” Martina Francesconi, Alice Galotti, Yannick Jadoul, […]
Nicholas Scarsdale has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). Abigail Lee, who nominated him, says: “Nicholas Scarsdale has the most luxurious hair of any astronomer I know. He graduated from Penn with a B.A. in Physics and Biophysics and just finished his PhD in Astronomy from UC Santa Cruz. He is soon […]
