More Lady Gaga in the laboratory.

We have all got stuck in a ‘Bad project’. Science is a trap.

Parody of “Friday”

Music by masteremerald123, lyrics by Cody Jackson.

Strange suggestion in a scientific paper.

Genuine article, published on Journal of Materials Science & Technology, (2010).
Be careful!

To investigate the attention needed to drive, Professor John W. Senders made a strange and dangerous experiment. Building a system with helmet programmed to cover eyes at regular intervals, John noted that attention would be required to maintain a safe path as a function of speed.

National Lab Mustache Day (NLMD) strives to celebrate mustaches in the science laboratory over the ages. From Golgi, to Hochstrasser, to Ramaswami, to Vale, NLMD honors mustaches of all shapes and sizes. NLMD culminates this year on February 13th 2009 with lab mustache parties across the country and around the world. Everyone is invited to participate and celebrate.
http://labmustacheday.blogspot.com/

List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (2008)

* Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site. (Brazil)

* Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs jump higher than fleas that live on cats.

* Chemistry: Sheree Umpierre, Joseph Hill, and Deborah Anderson, for discovering that Coca-Cola is an effective spermicide,[32] and C.Y. Hong, C.C. Shieh, P. Wu, and B.N. Chiang for proving it is not.

* Cognitive science: Slime molds can solve puzzles – Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Hiroyasu Yamada, Ryo Kobayashi, Atsushi Tero, Akio Ishiguro, and Ágota Tóth.

* Economics: Exotic dancers earn more when at peak fertility – Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tyber, and Brent Jordan.

* Literature: David Sims, for his study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations”.

* Medicine: Dan Ariely for demonstrating that expensive placebos are more effective than inexpensive placebos.

* Nutrition: Food tastes better when it sounds more appealing – Massimiliano Zampini and Charles Spence

* Peace: The Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology and the citizens of Switzerland, for adopting the legal principle that plants have dignity.[44]

* Physics: heaps of string or hair will inevitably tangle – Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith

According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Harris JC. Agony. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2004 Apr;61(4):334.

Noll R. The blood of the insane. Hist Psychiatry. 2006 Dec;17(68 Pt 4):395-418.

Petsko GA. Winter, plague and pestilence. Genome Biol. 2001;2(11):COMMENT1013. Epub 2001 Oct 23. No abstract available.

Sistrunk Cranford J. Stay tuned for the next episode of pain. Int J Nurs Pract. 2001 Aug;7(4):288-91.

Via A good Poop

Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis – 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6929290.stm

The second-generation tasting robot that was recently developed.
A wine-tasting robot has been developed by researchers in Japan.

http://www.necst.co.jp/english/news/20060801/index.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5312220.stm