Did you hear about the scientist who wanted to explore cryogenics?
He's 0K
Monday, 19 November 2012
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Chocolate and Nobel Laureates
Eating more chocolate improves a nation's chances of producing Nobel Prize winners - or at least that's what a recent study appears to suggest. But how much chocolate do Nobel laureates eat, and how could any such link be explained?
Franz Messerli of Colombia University took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption. The results - published in the New England Journal of Medicine - were striking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356613
"When you correlate the two - the chocolate consumption with the number of Nobel prize laureates per capita - there is an incredibly close relationship," he says.
"This correlation has a 'P value' of 0.0001. This means there is a less than one-in-10,000 probability that this correlation is simply down to chance."
It might not surprise you that Switzerland came top of the chocolate-fuelled league of intelligence, having both the highest chocolate consumption per head and also the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita.
This is the sort of study you find published on April 1st ........ but it's November!
Read the whole article and if you believe the facts it's pretty convincing. Can it be true???
Franz Messerli of Colombia University took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption. The results - published in the New England Journal of Medicine - were striking.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20356613
"When you correlate the two - the chocolate consumption with the number of Nobel prize laureates per capita - there is an incredibly close relationship," he says.
"This correlation has a 'P value' of 0.0001. This means there is a less than one-in-10,000 probability that this correlation is simply down to chance."
It might not surprise you that Switzerland came top of the chocolate-fuelled league of intelligence, having both the highest chocolate consumption per head and also the highest number of Nobel laureates per capita.
This is the sort of study you find published on April 1st ........ but it's November!
Read the whole article and if you believe the facts it's pretty convincing. Can it be true???
Voyager
There was a big splash recently about the Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, being ‘at the edge of the Solar system’. So is it out of the Solar system yet? How would we know – there’s no boundary sign, equivalent to ‘Welcome to Glorious Gloucestershire’?
Anyway, is there really an edge to the system? Doesn’t radiation etc just keep getting weaker and weaker for ever?
Sunday, 4 November 2012
BBC has just released new iPlayer app for radio, usable on most mobiles. You will probably know you can download oodles of BBC progs - radio and tv - via podcasts.
iTunes leads to dozens of podcast sites with hundreds of downloadable podcasts on every subject under the sun - well - nearly.
Many mobiles have built-in radio so you can listen to BBC while digging the garden or walking the dog.
iPhone doesn't have FM radio built-in, but with podcasting you can deliver tons of progs - which is better than listening live as you can choose the prog from yr archive.
jmj
iTunes leads to dozens of podcast sites with hundreds of downloadable podcasts on every subject under the sun - well - nearly.
Many mobiles have built-in radio so you can listen to BBC while digging the garden or walking the dog.
iPhone doesn't have FM radio built-in, but with podcasting you can deliver tons of progs - which is better than listening live as you can choose the prog from yr archive.
jmj
Friday, 2 November 2012
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