Evann Souza has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: In May 2007 I obtained my Masters of Science in Conservation Biology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I currently work for the USDA-ARS, doing agricultural insect research primarily with fruit flies. I have attached a picture of […]
Month: April 2008
For Want of a Nail
Can anyone help me identify the metal used in the nails used to make the ladder used by the bearded gentleman in the middle of this photograph? I have been puzzling at this for a long time now, and decided it?s time to ask for help. Tommy (?Thomas?) Tompkins Metallurgist, retired Missoula, Missouri, USA (That’s […]
Swearing is Better in One’s Native Language
“The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals,” J.M. Dewaele, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 25, nos. 2-3, 2004, pp. 204-22 (http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/62). (Thanks to Cathy Harris-Caldwell for bringing this to our attention.) The author explains: “This paper investigates the perception of emotional force of swearwords and taboo words […]
Dr. Parker?s Latent Library and the Death of the Author
The death of the author has been a fundamental constant of post-modern literary criticism ever since Roland Barthes? essay of 1967. Now an economist, Professor Philip M. Parker, has turned the entire question on its head. The really interesting question about someone who has been described as ?the most prolific author in history? now concerns […]
Tim Marzullo joins LFHCfS
Tim Marzullo has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: The lovely lady next to me [in the photo] is my girlfriend, a vet student at Michigan State. Tim Marzullo, LFHCfS Graduate student in neural engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
A few highlights from the world?s most prolific book writer
Here are a few of the more than 85,000 (or perhaps more than 200,000) books authored by Professor Philip M. Parker and his book-writing machine. ?The Official Patient?s Sourcebook on SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA ?The Official Patient?s Sourcebook on DIARRHEA ?FLATULENCE: A Bibliography, Medical Dictionary, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References HALITOSIS: A Bibliography, Medical Dictionary, […]
Megan McCullen joins LFHCfS
Megan McCullen has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. She says: I am doing my dissertation research on the archaeology and ethnohistory of migration and community identity. On archaeological digs, and in daily life, I’m known for wearing bandanas to keep my luxuriant flowing hair out of my eyes. I hope to follow […]
Illegible Handwriting in Scotland
?Reputation and the Legibility of Doctors? Handwriting in Situ,? G.A. Cheeseman and N. Boon, Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 46, no. 3, June 2001, pp 79?80. The authors, at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, report: Our study evaluates if doctors deserve their reputation and investigates how legibility is affected by the time taken to write. Sets […]
Emotional baggage
Until 1997, lost luggage just sat there, ignored, while scholars focused on other subjects. Then Klaus R Scherer and Grazia Ceschi of the University of Geneva went to an airport and took a hard look at the emotions engendered by luggage loss. They used hidden cameras, microphones and survey forms to record people’s reactions to […]
Impossible impossibility?
Is it, in some cases, impossible to say what’s impossible? A related question is: Is the unpublishable unpublishable. The latter question is explored, or at least poked at, by the web site Publishing the Unpublishable. (Thanks to Stephen Direle for bringing this to our attention.)