(Research has shown that) if women could choose who they’d like to be impregnated by, they’d choose a rock star. So says Daniel Levitin, musician and associate professor who holds the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication at McGill University, in an August 23, 2006 interview Wired News interview. (Thanks to investigator Jim […]
Month: October 2006
More pricks than kicks
How do porcupines make love? Wendy Cooper discovered the answer while poking around the basement of the Australian National University library in Canberra about five years ago. Cooper is a parasitologist. She studies parasites, not porcupines. She also, in the course of her work, studies scientific journals. That was how she acquired her professional knowledge […]
Further chewing on pelican news
Investigator Steve Smith writes: There’s an update from the BBC [on October 25, 2006] on the pigeon eating pelican: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6083468.stm From the date, it’s unclear whether this could be the same bird or incident seen in the video (but the pelican in the video looks more like an Eastern white than an American white to […]
Legal cursing in Athens
Question: What kinds of curses do you find in the Athenian tablets? Answer: … A lot of them have to do with legal cases. They say things like, “Bind the tongue and the thoughts of so-and-so, who is about to testify against me on Monday.” We have some that are aimed at rival musicians or […]