Yes, they do occur in nature, to some extent. Each of these photos shows a puli. Click on them for details.
Month: March 2006
Education: the value of new ideas
An eminent American mathematician who has young children writes: The town [where I live] is forming a committee to study and decide on some town wide curriculum stuff. one of the moms is a professor at MIT. She contacted the town — detailed her credentials and offered some thoughts. They turned her down. essentially they […]
Monkey see, monkey see
We pass on, without overt comment, the headline of a March 22, 2006 press release issued by Duke University: “Executive” Monkeys Influenced by Other Executives, Not Subordinates The study to which it pertains is in the February 21, 2006 issue of Current Biology. (Thanks to Investigator Martin Gardiner for bringing this to our attention.)
Kees’s UK Ig Tour diary
Asymmetrical scrota, bulls’ penises and date rape by an ostrich: this year’s Ig Nobel tour was a risqu? business, writes Kees Moeliker… So begins the introduction to Kees Meoliker’s diary of the just-concluded Ig Nobel tour of the UK, written specially for The Guardian. (It’s taking the place, this week, of the Improbable Research column.) […]
Zoltan snuffles fumes
Zoltan Egeresi, inventor of the novel (except in novels and in movie comedies) anti-hijack contraption mentioned here yesterday, of Santa Cruz, California, also invented an exciting bathroom accessory. US patent #20040064884, granted April 8, 2004, is for a “Toilet Odor Blocking System.” (Click on the image to see an enlargement.) As Mr. Egeresi describes it: […]
Iggish Enronians in the news
Several co-winners of the 2002 Ig Nobel Economics Prize are in the news yet again. A March 22, 2006 New York Times article says: A former Enron treasurer testified today that Kenneth L. Lay presided over meetings in which top executives discussed the energy company’s precarious finances and endorsed the continued use of complex accounting […]
Anti-hijack contraption
Investigator Martin Gardiner alerts us to a newly patented (U.S. patent #7,014,147, granted March 21, 2006) anti-hijacking system. (Click on the image to see an enlargement.) The inventor describes it three-stoogically: This low cost non lethal Anti Hijacking System is… a last line of defense against a single or team of would be hijackers…. When […]
More on that baboon
The scientist who told us the tale of the stuffed baboon has now sent in a photo of the taxidermied half-gentleman in residence in his (the scientist’s) study. (Click on the image to see an enlargement.)
Customary: Lepers and baboons
An eminent British scientist writes: I’ve only twice declared things at Customs. The first time was two large boxes being brought from India, full of microscope slides from leprosy patients — thinly sliced leper, I guess you could call it. In those days they waved it through without batting an eyelid — try that nowadays. […]
Dentist of the Day: Dr. Toothaker
Today’s Dentist of the Day is: Dr. Randall W. ToothakerAssociate ProfessorCollege of DentistryUniversity of Nebraska Medical CenterLincoln, Nebraska, USA (Thanks to Investigator Jeff Blair, DMD, for bringing this to our attention.)