At the Ig Nobel ceremony, you took off the Emergency Bra you were wearing and put one of the masks on Nobel Prize–winning New York Times economics columnist Paul Krugman. He looked freaked out! Well, that first prototype didn’t have any adjustable straps. I put it on Paul Krugman and it barely fit his head. […]
Tag: head
Trophy heads, and tea bag holder
Serendipity: readers of Science News got to see articles about (1) human heads as trophies and (2) a patent for a new tea bag holder, side by side, on one page on May 22, 1954:
Heads Up: Snakes in your MRI tube
A simple experiment: put a person in a tube. Add a snake. Details are reported in the study [and click on the image here to see the video that accompanies the study]: “Fear Thou Not: Activity of Frontal and Temporal Circuits in Moments of Real-Life Courage,” Uri Nili, Hagar Goldberg, Abraham Weizman and Yadin Dudai, […]
A very nice French conformateur
The Nautilus curiosity shop in Torino, Italy describes this as “A very nice French conformateur, a device for registering the shape of a head so that a precisely-fitting hat may be made.”