For those who enjoy mathematics as a spectator pastime, there is the Complexity Zoo.
Month: February 2005
Further hair cruise news
At least one person is excited at the prospect of a cruise for members of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). A few months ago the LFHCfS received an invitation to plan an exciting group cruise. Today a message arrived in response to the sending of that first message. Here it is: Hi, […]
Good hair at Worcester Polytechnic and UBC
Melissa Towler, the noted biolochemist/engineer, competitive ballroom dancer, and Scottish Fold fancier, has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. And so has Chris Keeler, the noted chemist and orchid fancier. Towler is at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Keeler is at the University of British Columbia. These institution are (or soon will be) […]
February mini-AIR
The February issue of mini-AIR just went out.
The perfect cuppa
What is the proper way to make a cup of tea? The question has many answers, but only one of them is the official British standard… So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
Preserving the Hirst shark
A report in The Art Newspaper explains that: Damien Hirst?s shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde, recently sold for $12 million to US billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, is disintegrating and will need extensive conservation work to prevent it from further deterioration. This is the view of conservation scientists and natural history specialists […]
Egrets: I’ve Had a Few
“Promiscuity in the Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis),” is one of the featured citations in the most recent “Boys Will be Boys” column. N.G. McKilligan’s egret-filled research report was published in the journal The Auk, vol. 107, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 334-41.
Association of Dead People video
Video of 2003 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Lal Bihari, the founder of the Association of Dead People, is now online, thanks to an organization called Snoop Video News.
Microsoft scarfs down the European science community?
Microsoft has just acquired the entire European science community. So it appears, anyway. Here is Microsoft’s announcement: [FEB 2, 2005]At the Government Leaders Forum today, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the EuroScience Initiative in his keynote to over 500 government leaders and public officials. And here is a surprised reaction from […]
Goat dressing
Little research has been published on the subject of goat dressing [click on the link, then scroll down]. (Thanks to Genevieve Reynolds for bringing this to our attention.)