The "Medical Research Review" column in the special Security Issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. carries news of the visual revenge of the spider, and other reports gleaned from the world’s medical case literature.
Month: June 2005
Sacerdotal celibacy
Whenever there is a new pope, the air fills with questions about priestly celibacy. The more formal term for this practice is "sacerdotal celibacy". The most popular piece of literature on the topic, Henry Charles Lea’s voluminous History of Sacerdotal Celibacy was published in 1867 and has enjoyed many, many reprints…. So begins this week’s […]
Clocky and Tenureclocky
Clocky is the hiding alarm clock invented by Gauri Nanda. Tenureclocky is the epic poem written by Dany Adams.
How to move the Earth
The analytical guide to how to move the Earth is the work of Mathematics student Sam Hughes, whose Venn diagram about Britain is equally to be admired.