Sometimes I wish I could do that

Update

Finally finished the bulk of my second journal paper. Once I add the introduction and conclusion it can be handed off for editing. Next I have to make changes to the now-edited survey paper, as well as prepare an internal presentation for VIT. Then, I can finally work on paper #3 (mostly done) and paper #4 (partly done, needs a bit more work). Those should take about a week each to finish up. That should be sufficient for Phase I, which I can then pull together into Chapter 2 of my final thesis.

Humans really are chocolate hounds

Source: Improbable Research Humans can follow scent trails across a field in the same way that dogs can – and they improve with practice – a intriguing new field study has revealed. Jess Porter and Noam Sobel at the University of California in Berkeley, US, and colleagues tested whether 32 people were able to follow a 10-metre-long scent trail of chocolate essence through open grass using only their noses. Two-thirds of them could. So says a December 17, 2006 New Scientist report, which includes video of a blindfolded person sniffing her way, on all fours, across a field.

My brother is cool!

A Christmas gift from my brother, address to BOTH ms_danson and I (more points to him for paying attention to details)




( Other gifts below )

Most of the rest are still wrapped. We're opening one or two per day until Christmas. There are more at http://public.fotki.com/dracodraconis/2006/christmas-gifts/ but the photos are going to be updated as things are opened. It's mostly to let family back on PEI know what we received.