this This week’s feedback column (I will write it) New Scientist This magazine has five segments: Below are some excerpts from each segment:
- I love ostriches — The known risks (corporate, financial, personal, sexual) involved in starting an ostrich farm are probably less well known in New England than in Old England….
- Coffee Aromatherapy — Praewpat Pachimsawat, Manita Tammayan, Thi Kim Anh Do and Nattinee Jantaratnotai came up with a super simple way to deliver scents to dental students. Rather than blasting a foul odor throughout the room, they wanted to create a “personalized coffee aroma diffusion.” Personal diffusion of the coffee aroma was desirable but not the ultimate goal…
- Dental Stress — Another reason why dental students feel stressed can be seen in the title of the study by Ayse Tugba Erturk Avunduk, Hande Filiz and Esra Cengiz Yanardağ, “The Effect of Dietary Habits of Dental Students on Tooth Color.”
- Circumcision for Nudists— In Feedback, the anonymous author of a news release from Canada’s Brandon University congratulates himself for persuading an editor to run a story with the capitalized headline “Brandon University Professor Honored for Outstanding Research on Anti-Circumcision Argument.” Once that first sentence entered the author’s mind, it may have been impossible to resist…
- Pharmaceutical drama — Feedback gives a taste of the range of emotions delivered to TV viewers by the advertising campaign for a drug with the unmemorable name Bimzelx….
