Ig Nobel Prize winner Jim Gundlach, co-author of the study “The Effects of Country Music on Suicide,” in Upper Oddington, England, during the 2008 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. The tour is part of the UK’s National Science Week. Photo: Carol Gundlach. (That’s an excerpt from AIR 14:4. A glorious large version of the […]
Month: September 2008
Duck guy visits sex museum
On his way to the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, 2003 biology prize winner Kees Moeliker will stop over in New York for a public talk in the Museum of Sex. Tuesday, September 30th at 1 and 4 pm, he will take part in a gallery chat in the exhibition ‘The Sex Lives of Animals‘. MoS […]
Chakrabarty, Fish Photo Detective
The sturgeon the man is holding in the photograph sent in by Dr. Grossi (AIR Vents 13:6) is a juvenile of either Acipenser fulvescens, the lake sturgeon, or Acipenser oxyrhynchus, the Atlantic sturgeon. (I am leaning toward the latter.) I am fairly certain of this identification based on the color of the scutes relative to […]
Breakthrough: Beyond the paperless office
A court in Mumbai, India has achieved, indeed far surpassed, the decades-long dream of “going paperless” — of eliminating paper and paperwork, replacing it with electronic technology. According to a July 21st, 2008 report in the Times of India: MUMBAI: The state police can now bank on a forensic tool to achieve speedy convictions. For […]