Comedy is a strange thing. Sometimes the best jokes are created by the audience. Giving the humble whiteboard an online identity demonstrated the performativity of my "real" identity. Image: blank whiteboard in supermarket elevator by Jonathon Brodsky (CC-BY 2.0) It was 2014 and I was working as Producer/Director of a comedy-science stage show, The Science… Continue reading Inside the mind of a whiteboard – What an inanimate object’s identity tells us about constructing our self online
Category: Human interaction
Research update
Science is ever moving and ever changing, and we’re always finding new things. In this article I’m revisiting some of my past topics with some recent research. The structure of skin One of my first articles on thatscienceguy discussed the structure of human skin and how the sun’s radiation affects it. Skin is the largest… Continue reading Research update
Sexual attraction – Part 2
Last post talked about the effects that the sex hormones oestrogen (females) and testosterone (males) have on attractiveness to the opposite sex. While the do have a major role in assisting our search for appropriate mates, there are other factors. Physical features The effects of sex hormones on facial features has already been described,… Continue reading Sexual attraction – Part 2
Sexual attraction – Part 1
Apologies for the late posting of this fortnight’s articles, I needed to wait for an embargo to lift prior to publishing. Finding a mate is one of the most important tasks for every organism which reproduces sexually. While people say they have different ‘tastes’ in an ideal mate, in fact there is a large amount… Continue reading Sexual attraction – Part 1
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