Here’s a pointer to the Archives of Natural History, where the sea serpent paper by 2002 Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Paxton, Sharon Hedley and Erik Knatterud is scheduled to be published this week. (Knatterud is, among other things, the keeper of the Database of Norwegian Sea Serpents and Paxton of the history-packed Aquatic Sea […]
Month: April 2005
Great British explorers (chapter 106)
Investigator David McA. McKirdy writes: I would like to bring to your attention John Gillatt of Bolton, Manchester, England. He recently hit the headlines in the UK after getting lost in the Malaysian rain forest for 5 days without a map or compass, or any other basic survival material. To cap it all he said […]
Shoes and disease
"The Centers for Disease Control report on tobacco smoking compares statistics of lung cancer to cigarette consumption amongst various regions and countries around the world, but like the American Lung Association, they say nothing about the stronger correlation with shoes." So writes James P. Semmel of Albuquerque, New Mexico in his lengthy essay about shoes […]