Yes, yes, yes – there are many ways to repeat yourself. Some are more meaningful than others, says a clever linguist in the Netherlands. Technically speaking, "Yes, yes, yes!" is an example of "multiple sayings in social interaction". Tanya Stivers has pursued, bagged, and intensively studied a small herd of multiple sayings…. So begins this […]
Month: January 2005
Rothschild?s Ouroborus
This week’s selection in our READING FOR PLEASURE series is "Rothschild?s Ouroborus."
Acclaim for Disclaimers
We join the many who admire Colin Purrington‘s celebrated textbook disclaimers.
April Trees
This week’s under-publicized researcher of the week is Assistant Professor April Trees of the Communication Department of the University of Colorado. Dr. Trees should not be mistaken for any of her namesakes.
Math controversy
Mathematics has provoked yet another raging controversy. A January 8, 2005 report in The Scotsman explains: The BBC was accused of using shock tactics tonight as the row over its screening of the Jerry Springer musical moved into the political arena. Critics have alleged that the show, to be shown uncut on BBC2 tonight, features […]
Ig Nobel winner agrees to stop invading
And still another Ig Nobel winner is in the news again. Sanford Wallace, who has sometimes playfully called himself "Spamford Wallace," is the subject of numerous press accounts such as this January 5, 2005 Associated Press report carried by KNRV-TV in Reno, Nevada: ‘Spam King’ agrees to stop invading computers until FTC lawsuit is resolved […]
Ig Nobel winners pay $13 million
More Ig Nobel winners are in the news. "Ten former outside directors of Enron will pay $13 million from their own funds to settle shareholder lawsuits over the U.S. company’s collapse," according to a report in the January 8, 2005 issue of the Washington Times. Enron’s executives, corporate directors, and auditors shared (with their counterparts […]
Fast Food, Swell Ambiance
The Nobel Foundation has prepared a sublime, two-minute, time-lapse look at the Nobel banquet. It’s available in both RealPlayer and Quicktime formats.
Big Hair Day
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) has just chosen its new Woman of the Year and Man of the Year. The choices this time are triply luxuriant and flowing… So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
Big Bone Lick
It is time, again, to pause and recongnize Kentucky’s Big Bone Lick State Park, the proudly self-proclaimed Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology. (Thanks to investigator Verena Wieloch for bringing this to our attention.)