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 […]