Do you enjoy conformity? If so, perhaps you already read the journal that is quietly yet splendidly called “Conformity“. (Thanks to investigator Tom Roberts for bringing this to our attention.)
Month: October 2007
Fat people have less gas
Higher U.S. gasoline prices may slim more than just wallets, according to a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. Entitled “A Silver Lining? The Connection between Gas Prices and Obesity,” the study found that an additional $1 per gallon in real gasoline prices would reduce U.S. obesity by 15 percent after five years. […]
Photocaged morpholino
Investigator Piri LaCoste writes: Why don’t you write more about photocaged morpholino? It’s my favorite chemical name. Ps. I truly love morpholinos of any kind.
Feline weather forecasting
Many traditional weather forecasts are based on the behaviour of animals: cows sitting down, sheep putting their heads into hedges, hogs running around with straw in their mouths… There are hundreds of them. Even if you assume that our ancestors were a superstitious lot, who saw disaster in every twitch of a lamb’s tail, so […]
Schnug’s Coke usage
QUESTION: For what discovery can Coca-Cola enthusiasts thank Mr Prof. Dr. sc. agr. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Ewald Schnug? ANSWER: They can thank him for his two studies: ?Coca Cola Is It! The Ubiquitous Extractant for Micronutrients in Soil,? Ewald Schnug, J?rgen Fleckenstein, and Silvia Haneklaus, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, vol. 27, […]
Ig Nobelity in Genoa tonight
Tonight is Ig Nobel night at the Genoa Science Festival. The event starts at 9:00 pm. at the Ducal Palace. AIR editor Marc Abrahams will introduce Ig Nobel Prize winners Stefano Ghirlanda, Donatella Marazitti, Ruurd de Jong, and Kees Moeliker, and Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club man of the year (and rock star) Dr. Piero Paravadino.
A little problem with Mr. Small
On June 18, 2007, skulduggery and detective adventure seeped out from an unlikely source – an otherwise stodgy 108-page-long committee report to the administrators of a government research institution in Washington, DC. The story’s villains are magnificent, because we meet them only as darkly sketched figures. The report’s title is dull enough: A Report to […]
LFHCfS member James Voordeckers update
James Voordeckers updates his membership in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: Finished my doctoral studies at Rutgers and have moved north. I am currently researching the physiology of iron reducing hyperthermophile microorganisms at UMASS. James Voordeckers, Ph.D., LFHCfS Postdoc University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts, USA
Benzi Kluger joins LFHCfS
Benzi Kluger has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Deborah Townsend and Lauren Saunders, who nominated him, say: Benzi is a neurology fellow at the University of Florida working on research related to fatigue in healthy subjects and stroke patients. Benzi Kluger, MD, LFHCfS Neurology Fellow Department of Neurology University of Florida Gainesville, […]
Heavy hand
Investigator Jeannie Crosby sends this image of an anatomical peculiarity, together with a link (now gone dead, sorry to say) to the web site where she found it. For a possible explanation, see the medical report “Salvage of amputated digits by temporary ectopic implantation,” by J. Bakhack and colleagues at Institut aquitain de chirurgie plastique, […]