The February issue of mini-AIR just went out. It?s stuffed full of still more new professor-professors, and touches on each of the following topics: self-dentistry; hiccup know-how; exhibitionists progress; acrobats’ dreams; worms and Harrison Schmitt; shaven; garbage, Molteno and Blebs; and other things. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email […]
Month: February 2007
Van Leeuwen Hooked
A pest to pests has been caught and convicted of theft from the museum where he once worked, according to a December 6, 2006 report in The Australian: Museum worker’s bone haul WHEN investigators raided the home of former Australian Museum pest controller Hendrikus van Leeuwen, every room except his bathroom and the kitchen was […]
Hear no evil, phone no evil
“Choosing a religious phone is one way a person who gives high salience to his or her religious identity can assert that importance in a public way,” says William Swatos, the executive director of the Religious Research Association in Galva, Ill. So says a March 27, 2006 Wall Street Journal article about the so-called kosher […]
Celebrity hair (Ludwig van B.)
Those with a particular fondness for Beethoven and/or his hair may now own a little piece of him in the form of a Beethoven LifeGem, a diamond made with carbon from a carbon-based life form. Of particular interest may be this note: The Beethoven locks of hair used for creating these LifeGems have been authenticated […]