Today, Halloween, is a good time to take another look at the Halloween Research Review — both part 1 and part 2.
Month: October 2005
Hawks on beetles
Beetles? Hawks.
Servants and masters
Psychologist Robin Abrahams sends in this behavioral observation: A change in one part of your life — in my case, adopting a dog — can lead you to see all sorts of things in new ways. Watching the news coverage of Harriet Miers’ nomination to the Supreme Court, I was struck by the fact that […]
Rejection is no impediment to getting published
The Annals of Improbable Research receives a large number of submissions, most of which we have to decline to publish. Recently, Jon Singer submitted an article, and we rejected it. Singer’s gracious response is eloquent. We publish it here with his permission: Hmmm. I wrote it up to read as a goof, but in fact […]
Chewing Gum / Surgery press release
"Study at West Penn Hospital Shows Chewing Gum after Laparoscopic Surgery Shortens Hospital Stay" is the headline on an October 17, 2005 press release issued by Western Pennsylvania Hospital, in Pittsburgh. Here are further details: For patients undergoing laparoscopic colon resection, chewing gum routinely administered in the immediate postoperative period results in an earlier discharge […]
Old Bottle Magazine 1968
1968 was a good year for the readers of Old Bottle Magazine.
Waiting for Perch
Investigator Earle E. Spamer writes: In the "AIR Vents" section of the July-August 2002 issue of AIR , Ronald Perch, D.M.D. of Sebastopol, CA, complained that he suspected his semi-annual patient, "Stefan," of pilfering the latest issues of AIR from the doctor’s waiting room. Dr. Perch stood his ground, reporting, "I am going to try […]
Precision circumcisions
Bryan B Fuller is the world’s top expert on skin colour in human foreskins. Professor Fuller’s foreskin research is based at the University of Oklahoma, where he is an associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. A research paper he co-authored with four colleagues in 1990 is the most-cited study on the topic. … So […]
Meaning found in the chicken commodity chain
Investigator Robert E. Dale, who alerted us to the seminar on Manufacturing meaning in the chicken commodity chain" (see item from two days ago), sent us an update: Well, I did make it to the seminar, and actually it was quite serious and informative. I did chat with Peter Jackson afterwards, and he told me […]
Lotto pffffffffffhhhht
When a lottery goes pffffffffffhhhht it goes goes pffffffffffhhhht. (Thanks to Jean Tenso and Ilkka Poutanen for bringing this to our attention.)