In the same spirit that (independently) led Richard Wassersug to conduct the (Ig Nobel Prize winning) study “On the Comparative Palatability of Some Dry-Season Tadpoles from Costa Rica,” Ralph Lewin and Mike Doudoroff performed a simple experiment: Why, they asked, didn’t birds decimate the festoons of Monarchs that hung on the near-by butterfly trees? Do […]
Month: March 2009
What is this picture?
(That’s an excerpt from the back cover of AIR 13:4.)
Impoliteness And Rudeness in Lancaster: A coming event
Geoffrey Leech invites you to a celebration of impoliteness and rudeness: Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness II (LIAR II) The 2009 International Conference of The Linguistic Politeness Research Group Lancaster University, United Kingdom 30 June – 2 July 2009 This three-day conference focuses is on language and communication that might be described as ‘impolite’, ‘rude’, ‘aggressive’, […]
Kris Coward joins LFHCfS
Kris Coward has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I’m an (underemployed) mathematician and currently doing research on (sung) music recognition algorithms (though my formal background is in Operator Algebra) for Caliope Music Search Inc. in Toronto.. Kris Coward, PhD, LFHCfS Research and Development Lead Caliope Music Search Inc. Toronto, Ontario, […]