Teen Who Cut Off Corpse’s Head To Make Bong Sentenced Friends Say Buckalew Told Them He Did It Out Of Boredom The teen reportedly told friends that he planned to leave the head outside to dry and would then bleach it, a police affidavit said. The witnesses said his plan was to turn the skull […]
Month: September 2006
A catalogue of errors
How many books written in seemingly obscure languages are misfiled and languishing unfindable in libraries? Joyce Flynn’s experience at Harvard suggests the answer is: a lot. Flynn, a researcher in Celtic languages, discovered some common mishaps that no one discusses much…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
September mini-AIR
The September issue of mini-AIR just went out (late, due to our switchover to new distribution software). It features a fresh batch of professor-professors, song-lodging statistics, the story of academic bad breath, and other things. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, please subscribe to it. It?s […]
Go for the hair
If you don’t have time to properly evaluate an investment opportunity, just use the Hair Rule: any investment in a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is a guaranteed success. So says the mildly elusive editor of the web site valleywag, citing as an example a man who is not a member […]