Cheating is a central theme of a publication called the Journal of College and Character. Its current issue features two studies on the topic. One looks at college honour codes, which are popular in the US and are poised to sprout in the UK and elsewhere. Rodney Arnold, of the College of the Ozarks, together […]
Month: May 2007
Deciding the moral state of money
In many countries, monies suspected of being associated with drug trafficking can be seized by the authorities. One of the ways of investigating this association is through the analysis of seized banknotes for traces of controlled drugs. We report three studies which may assist the expert in assessing whether banknotes contaminated with diamorphine are part […]
Jason Schneiderman joins the LFHCfS
Jason Schneiderman has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am currently a PhD student in Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU studying brain imaging in schizophrenia. Jason Schneiderman, LFHCfS Graduate Student/Research Assistant Neuroscience PET Lab Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, New York, USA (Click on […]
Bad-coffee / gold exchange rate in 1871
I will give ONE OUNCE OF GOLD for every ounce of adulteration found in my Coffee. So writes B.T. Babbitt in a notice about his new coffee. The notice appears on a page near the end of Henry T. Brown’s eminently dip-into-able 1871 book Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements, Embracing All Those Which Are […]
Laurence Connor joins the LFHCfS
Laurence Connor has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am a physical scientist at NOAA presently studying the use of satellite radar altimeters to measure sea ice thickness. I have had a diverse scientific career studying mesospheric gravity waves, ocean acoustics, and remote sensing of ocean surface winds. I also […]
Ducky genitals: the female answer
Only 3% of all avian species possess a phallus, or male intromittent organ. Among these happy few, especially ducks are famous for their relatively long corkscrew shaped penises. From personal experience and observation, I know a flaccid, stretched mallard (Anas plathyrhynchos) penis may measure up to 18 cm, and the Argentine lake duck (Oxyura vittata) […]
Big-name peer pressure
Criticism from one’s peers — the process more formally called “Peer Review” — depends on the fairness of the peers who do the reviewing. One new research journal reminds its big-name peers to be fair. High quality papers for the International Journal for Creation Research (IJCR), sponsored by the Institute for Creation Research, are now […]
John M. Logsdon, Jr. joins the LFHCfS
John M. Logsdon, Jr. has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I am a molecular evolutionary geneticist. I work on the origin and evolution of sexual reproduction, deep eukaryotic phylogeny, and lots of other related stuff. John M. Logsdon, Jr., LFHCfS Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences Roy J. Carver Center […]
Francesco Mercuri joins the LFHCfS
Francesco Mercuri has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: With the hope of worthily representing Italy. His main research interests focus on theoretical investigations on complex systems using computational chemistry methods. These methods include Hartree-Fock (HF) and post Hartree-Fock, like configuration interaction (CI), many-body perturbation theory, like Moeller-Plesset (MP), density functional […]
The triumphant return of Theoharis Theoharis
Unexpectedly, the saga of Theoharis Theoharis continues. Investigator Cassie Conley writes: But there IS a Professor Professor Theoharis Theoharis, as found in Athens (where else?): http://graphics.di.uoa.gr/people/cv_theoharis.html The saga, when last we left it (in mini-AIR 2007-04), was apparently at an end. But now, thanks to Investigator Conley, Professor-Professor Theoharis Theoharis takes his rightful place in […]