There are depths and shoals to explore in Mark Isaak’s Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature. Investigator Isaak writes: I would like to call your attention to two scientists whose contributions, perhaps, are worthy of recognition. Leigh Van Valen has expanded the horizons of paleontology into Middle Earth by naming at least 21 paleocene mammals after characters […]
Month: January 2005
January mini-AIR
The January issue of mini-AIR just went out.
Furnham the productive
Who is the most productive academic in the world? Adrian Furnham, maybe, a professor of psychology at University College London. He has seven nominal appendages, specifically: BA, MA, MSc, MSc (Econ), DPhil, DSc and DLitt. His CV is 55 pages long. This is perhaps worth repeating: Professor Furnham’s CV is 55 pages long… So begins […]
Hair for Canada
Canadian newspaper readers were treated to a luxuriant flowing photospread showing members of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). It appeared in the January 13, 2005 issue of the National Post.