Improbable Research

Investgator Jessica Girard alerts us to the National Museum of Natural History’s video of some boxing rats.

These boxing rats aren’t boxing cats.
Nor are they fighting flies.
Nay, nay.

Sharlie Huffman, P.Eng., the noted bridge seismic engineer, has
joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair
Club for Scientists.

Huffman is at the Ministry of Transportation, in Victoria, British Columbia. The institution is (or soon will be) renowned for its
abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.

James Gundlach, professor of sociology and co-winner of the 2004 Ig-Nobel Prize for Medicine, presents ?Research Enters the Culture Wars: The Effects of Country Music and Abortion on Suicide? Wednesday, January 26 at noon in Foy Room 213 at Auburn University.

(This news comes from a report in the January 20, 2005 issue of The Auburn Plainsman.)

"Foul-Mouthed Patron Drops Lawsuit" is the headline in a recent report in the journal American Libraries. The report begins:

A patron who sued the Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library after being banned for using obscene language has dropped his federal lawsuit.

In a December 6 letter to U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh, author Fredric Maxwell asked that his case be dismissed because he no longer lives in Ann Arbor, the Ann Arbor News reported December 8. Maxwell said he did not have the ?time, resources, or inclination to continue returning from the California sun to the Michigan snow to be an unpaid change agent for a town where I used to live.?

Mr Maxwell is the author of the book Bad Boy Balmer, a copy of which is in the library.

Two reptile ecological physiologists — Michael Finkler and Emily Taylor — have
joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair
Club for Scientists.

Finkler is at  Indiana University Kokomo. Taylor is at Arizona State University. Both institutions are (or soon will be) renowned for their abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.