One month after both Dutch and international media reported about my efforts to obtain pubic lice for the collection of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam (see an earlier post on this subject), it is my pleasure to report that the museum received a mere total of six crab specimens: five almost 60 year old dry-preserved, […]
Year: 2007
Hair club member makes good
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) member Brian May, who recently completed his PhD in astronomy from Imperial College London, was today named as chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Click on the photo below to see the university’s official announcement. Dr. May is also lead guitarist for the rock group Queen, a post […]
Suggestive research: Sex and pain
Sexual fantasies increase pain tolerance Bringing to mind a favorite sexual fantasy may be a good way to lessen pain, according to a recent study of college students by researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Wisconsin. The work, which tests the authors’ theory about the relationship between pain and mood, could produce simple, […]
Gay parades: Weapons of mass destruction
Investigator Bessel Mangols alerts us to what he or she describes as “a wonderfully perplexing news report, with an equally perplexing photo, about the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize, I think.” The report is from Interfax, dated October 9, 2007. Here are excerpts: Orthodox human rights activist: gay-parades should be equated with weapons of mass […]