Hopes are safer than aspirations, as regards small insects keeping their proper place. Hopes do not by themselves cause an infestation, in the head of a human being, of gnats, midges, anthomid flies, Collembola and wasps parasitic upon the flies. Aspirations can, and sometimes do. This fact dawns on anyone who reads a report called […]
Month: March 2007
Chemistry not enough sexy?
Investigator Lorenzo Stievano writes: This is the answer we needed to students that find chemistry not enough sexy! I would like you to notice the fine detail of the equilibrium double arrows: in chemistry, all equilibria are supposed to be dynamic. The image is from the study “{trans-1,4-Bis[(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]benzene}(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes and Their Supramolecular Assemblies with -Cyclodextrin,” […]
March mini-AIR
The March issue of mini-AIR just went out. It discusses Project Cork Rot, a professor-professor error, the Foot-Smell Registry, and the tiller vibration poet. It touches on each of the following topics: orifice demarcation; pythonic flicking; tough women where;? masked chinchilla tones; and other things. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to […]
Goodbye, Stefek Zaba
We pass on the sad news that Stefek Zaba is dead. Two weeks ago, on March 12, at the Ig Nobel show in Bristol, Stefek sang the role of Atom, the little atom who falls in love with a beautiful woman chemist, in the mini-opera “Atom & Eve.” His performance was filled with vim, gusto, […]