In the quest for excellence, some schools craft their own, specially excellent slogan or motto. Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, has the motto: "Powerful Resources, Personal Learning, Everything You Need." This seven-word elegiac poem was born in an intensive research and development programme…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
Month: January 2005
Boxing rats and cats (et al)
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.
Good hair at the Ministry of Transportation
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.
Country Music/Suicide Lecture
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 […]