Media Stories

The dark side of science – as part of the National Science Festival’s ’10 Days of Science’, Lorimer went down to the Powerhouse Museum to contribute to an ‘Adults Only’ science info night.  The night was magnificently hosted by All in the Mind’s Natasha Mitchell.  Here is the blurb by Kate Hennessy ‘Hanging around the dark side of science‘.

Dr Andrew ‘Happy’ Claus, led this study on how we sit, how we should sit and it ain’t necessarily so (Andrew would appreciate that….) – ABC Science picked it up – ‘Ideal Sitting Posture Questioned‘ which also got a write up in MedIndia. Although he is currently turning down most requests for public appearances, Andrew has squeezed this in just for BodyinMind.com.au!

Getting a fair bit of interest is Interdependence of movement and anatomy persists when amputees learn a physiologically impossible movement of their phantom limb (PNAS October 26, 2009, online edition) or, as reported in Science Blogs (great write up): Phantom limbs can contort into impossible configurations; New Scientist: Lost limb leads to flexible new body image; Nature: Neurology Impossible Movements; Reuters Health News: Amputees defy anatomy, learn to move phantom limbs, ABC Science: Phantom limbs make impossible moves and ScienceNews: Redefining self, phantom self.