Consider this three-sentence sequence: "This is Sonya Thomas. She can eat 43 soft tacos in 11 minutes. She is currently single." It exemplifies the advice often given to writers: show, don’t tell. It also does what many good science reports do: it raises more questions than it answers.
Month: December 2005
Death by red tape
Investigator Ron Josephson writes: "A few years back you asked [in the December 1998 issue of mini-AIR, and then later in the Bureaucracy Club] about what steps were needed to buy red tape. Well, here is a relevant, newsworthy item, a November 29 [2005] Associated Press article": NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Two government employees were charged Tuesday with […]
Sweaters, intensively
It is difficult to categorize, let alone definitively analyze, Leslie Hall’s Gem Sweater Collection. (Thanks to Martin Meder for bringing this to our attention.)
Note from a scientist with LF Hair
Mikael Parkvall, the blond (but sometimes blue) linguist who is the newest member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), sent us this note: I just noticed that my new membershif in LFHCfS entitles me to a free issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Wow, I sure would like to have one […]