What did you win your prize for? I won my prize for an article written six years ago about how we should alphabetise index entries that start with ‘The’. Most of the rules suggest that you should look for The Beatles and The Bible at ‘B’, but The Hague and first lines of poetry such […]
Year: 2007
Tucker Jones joins LFHCfS
Tucker Jones has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Liz George, who nominated him, says: Tucker Jones has had luxuriant flowing hair for as long as I’ve known him. Not only is it beautiful, but it is also soft! He graduated from MIT with a BS in Physics and is now doing a […]
Formulaic fashioning of fun formulas
Frank Swain laments the torrent of cute, quickie formulas loosed upon and lapped up by news media. He writes: It was too much to hope for to get through the season without someone, somewhere, attaching their name to a bogus scientific formula and calling it news. Ever since McVities paid Dr Len Fisher to come […]
Mucus found
The fact that it took researchers this long to realize that jellyfish were in fact enormous floating mucus bags might be the more remarkable revelation here. So writes Zoologix. UPDATE: Investigator Amber writes: It happens occasionally that some blog posts in my reader will seem to mimic posts from other blogs. This came through today […]