Inventor Charles Russell. of Dublin, Ireland, has just received a US patent (Dec, 2014) for his : ‘Drinking vessel fillable from the bottom and apparatus for dispensing a beverage therein’ The glass, which can be used for stout, or other beers, is filled (or refilled) via a special nozzle equipped with a non-return valve. Also […]
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Advanced brain research using Neo-Nazis and a cup
Research about the brain tries to measure — and interpret — ever-more-complex kinds of phenomena. Dr. Aziz-Zadeh tells, in a recorded talk for Academic Minute, about an advanced investigation: …looking at the brain activity of Jewish individuals while they watched videos of Anti-Semetic Neo-Nazis performing simple actions, like reaching for a cup. BONUS: the 2012 Ig Nobel […]
Case report: She pees in a cup in the library
Miss Conduct [who is also, under her own name, the psychology editor of the Annals of Improbable Research] considers a difficult case. The person who brought it to her attention wrote: “It has come to my and several co-workers’ attention that a woman who works in our office is locking herself in the library and […]