Science

Posts with category: science

• Plan your alcohol consumption • 27 Apr 2007
  I was talking to a doctor friend about cholesterol and stuff and he mentioned some interesting facts about alcohol: drinking up to 2 units of alcohol per day is good for your health. The numbers I find on the New...
• Interpersonal Intelligence and Mental Violence • 10 Apr 2007
  This is a text by Rauno Lindström that has now disappeared from its original URL. I don’t agree with all points in the text, but I store it here for easy reference. The definition of ‘interpersonal intelligence’ will remind you...
• A Sudoku challenge generator • 14 Aug 2006
  When on holiday, one can kill time solving Sudoku puzzles. When one has done a dozen of those puzzles and one happens to have a wandering mind like mine, one starts wondering how those Sudoku challenges are created, and if...
• Lies, damned lies and Google trends • 16 May 2006
  Yesterday I was browsing through my freshly arrived Tufte book “The visual display of quantitative information“. One example of “garbage in, garbage out” that he gives is the London Stock Exchange index (which went way down one year in Dec)...
• BMI is not perfect • 14 Mar 2006
  I’ve written a post on the BMI (Body Mass Index) of the candidates for Germany’s next Top Model and I have been mentally bugged ever since. Not by images of thin girls, but by the formula of BMI: weight(kg) /...
• ShockAbsorber: Baywatch and science • 28 Feb 2006
  Joey from “Friends“, as we all know, is very interested in bio-mechanics, certainly the topic of female movement on beaches:
• Know Your (Metric) Limits • 28 Apr 2005
  From Wired – July 2004:
• Instant Ken and Barbie: Melanotan to the rescue • 24 Apr 2005
  
• Intelligence is the mind’s worst enemy • 10 Oct 2004
  If you’re interested in high level conversations on a wide range of topics, check out edge.org. Their motto: To arrive at the edge of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room...
• Imperial time units: here come the nunes • 08 Aug 2004
  I caught an episode of Top Gear the other day. The rather excellent Jeremy Clarkson was talking about ‘driving very economically’ with a big Audi and mentioned all kinds of mpg (miles per gallon) measurements. For me, as I have...