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[23]Cuteness as Soft Power
[24]April 29, 2024 [25]Marc Abrahams
Cuteness can be powerful on a national level and also internationally, according
to this study: "Soft Power: ;SCute Culture', A Persuasive Strategy in Japanese
Advertising," Oana-Maria Bîrlea, TRAMES, A Journal Of The Humanities And Social
Sciences, 2023, pp. 311-324. The author [pictured here] explains: "The article
addresses the ways in which soft power is used [...]
[26]Arts and Science, [27]Research News[28]cute, [29]Japan, [30]power, [31]soft
[32]Low-gravity blood spatter, Thinking inside the box, Stick to Fruit, Genital glow
[33]April 24, 2024 [34]Marc Abrahams
This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
segments. Here are bits of each of them: Blood spatter on high -- "Be prepared!"
This enduring motto of the Scout movement will come to mind for many readers of a
paper called "Bloodstain pattern dynamics in microgravity: Observations of a
pilot study in the [...]
[35]Arts and Science, [36]Extra-Improbable columns, [37]Research News[38]blood
spatter, [39]fruit, [40]genital glow, [41]inside the box, [42]low gravity,
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[44]Unexpected 23-fold depths of an autopsy
[45]April 22, 2024 [46]Marc Abrahams
"I once performed an autopsy on a deceased pedestrian who had been wearing 23
layers of clothing. It took us longer to undress him than to perform the
autopsy". --from the book Risking Life for Death, by Ryan Blumenthal (Jonathan
Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, 2023). Here is a brief video of the author
describing a different [...]
[47]Arts and Science[48]Autopsy, [49]clothing, [50]forensic
[51]Boxing, Walls, Surfing value, Car jeers and cheers, Dead ant repellant
[52]April 18, 2024 [53]Marc Abrahams
This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five
segments. Here are bits of each of them: Boxing: thinking outside -- From time to
time, the sport of boxing changes its rules. But for the most part, it still
requires that each participant in a match be both human and alive. (Exceptions do
occasionally [...]
[54]Arts and Science, [55]Extra-Improbable columns, [56]Research News
[57]PowerPoint Co-Inventor's Appreciation of Chicken Chicken Chicken
[58]April 15, 2024 [59]Marc Abrahams
Robert Gaskins, co-inventor or PowerPoint, highlights Doug Zongker`s "Chicken
Chicken Chicken" as one of his favorite ever PowerPoint presentations. This a
videorecording of Doug Zongker's talk in the Improbable Research session at the
February 2008 AAAS meeting, in San Francisco:
[60]Arts and Science[61]chicken, [62]powerpoint
[63]Dog tail wagging, Donald Duck dam jubilee, Anti-covid tea-gargling, Urine on acorns
[64]April 11, 2024 [65]Marc Abrahams
This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
segments. Here are bits of each of them: Chasing the tale -- Silvia Leonetti and
colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the US and Denmark don't quite
explain why dogs wag their tails, but they do explain that it is hard to explain.
In a paper [...]
[66]Arts and Science, [67]Extra-Improbable columns, [68]Research News[69]acorns,
[70]covid, [71]dam, [72]dog, [73]donald Duck, [74]gargling, [75]tail, [76]tea,
[77]Urine, [78]waggin
[79]Coffee-Smell-Enhanced Coffee Smell
[80]April 11, 2024 [81]Marc Abrahams
Coffee smell can be enhanced in reliability and intensity, suggests this study,
by adding coffee smell from used coffee: "Improvement of Robusta coffee aroma by
modulating flavor precursors in the green coffee bean with enzymatically treated
spent coffee grounds: A circular approach," Cyril Moccand, Aditya Daniel
Manchala, Jean-Luc Sauvageat, Anthony Lima, Yvette Fleury Rey, and [...]
[82]Arts and Science, [83]Research News[84]Coffee, [85]grounds, [86]smell
[87]Ig Nobel events in Denmark -- April 9 and 10
[88]April 7, 2024 [89]Marc Abrahams
The Ig Nobel EuroTour comes to Denmark this week, with 2 events: Tuesday, April
9, 2024, 7 pm -- Aarhus University (and specially livestreamed to more than 300
theaters, libraries and other venues, some also offering dinner, throughout the
kingdom of Denmark) Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm -- Copenhagen University, as part
of the Vin [...]
[90]Arts and Science, [91]Ig Nobel, [92]Research News
[93]Tea paving, Solar cells like razor blades, Alligator bellows, Ants for your
arteries
[94]April 3, 2024 [95]Marc Abrahams
This week's Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four
segments. Here are bits of each of them: Paved with good tea -- What to do with
all the waste from preparing zillions of cups of tea? Researchers in Malaysia
propose converting some of it into infrastructure.Mohammad Al Biajawi at
University Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah and [...]
[96]Arts and Science, [97]Extra-Improbable columns, [98]Research News
[99]Hooking the Scientific Community on Thorny-Headed Worms
[100]April 1, 2024 [101]Marc Abrahams
Info and maybe advice for admirers of thorny-headed worms: "Hooking the
Scientific Community on Thorny-Headed Worms: Interesting and Exciting Facts,
Knowledge Gaps and Perspectives for Research Directions on Acanthocephala,"
Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Camille-Sophie Cozzarolo, Omar Amin, Daniel Barcák,
Alexandre Bauer, Vlatka Filipovic Marijic, Martín García-Varela, et al.,
Parasite, vol. 30 2023.
[102]Arts and Science, [103]Research News[104]Worms
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