Improbable Research

More than twenty years of experience in the healthcare industry has enabled Elena Medo to launch Prolacta Bioscience and professionalize the handling and processing of human breast milk.

This proud claim is made corporately, and fortified with plenty of research description. The public is trying to digest what it all means.

(Thanks to Investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.)

Estonian Driver Accidentally Runs Over 10 Wild Boars in One Day

So says the headline on a March 14, 2006 MosNews report.

Half a world away, the Ontario, Canada government has a solution to the problem.

Given the finger, Dr. Hurd says he finds the evidence compelling. A March 2, 2005 press release (from the University of Alberta) makes this plain:

Dr. Peter Hurd initially thought the idea was “a pile of hooey,” but he changed his mind when he saw the data.

Hurd and graduate student Allison Bailey have shown that a man’s index finger length relative to ring finger length can predict how inclined that man is to be physically aggressive. Women do not show a similar effect….

(Thanks to investigators Tom Roberts and Thomas J. Roberts for pointing this out to us.)

It is now official: An 82-year-old former professor beat a 41-year-old woman in court, after beating her in a bedroom. The March 24, 2006 issue of MidHudsonNews reports:

Mistrial declared in sexual assault case of ex-prof

A mistrial has been declared in the trial of former SUNY New Paltz professor Wade Thompson, 82, who was accused of sexually assaulting a 41-year-old female student…. The judge declared the mistrial based on a request by defense attorney Ben Ostrer, who questioned the contentions of the victim. The woman claimed Thompson whipped her, causing

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Robert Kennedy has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says:

My name is Robert Kennedy, and I am a Ph.D. graduate of Stanford University in Computer Science. I currently work more in an engineering capacity at Tensilica, Inc., but still I consider myself a scientist. Computer scientist, that is.

Dr. Robert Kennedy
Computer Programmer
Tensilica, Inc.
Santa Clara, California, USA

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