Feeding different-coloured sparkling glitter to two female white rhinos has acted as an impromptu pregnancy test.To keep a check on the hormone levels of Ashanti and Zanta, authorities at Dublin Zoo – who are hoping to breed the animals – added blue and silver glitter to their feed to tell the faeces apart for analysis…. […]
Year: 2007
Does it rain more on weekends? (update)
David Schultz tells how he researched and wrote his study “Does it rain more on the weekends?” (published in AIR 4:2), and discusses subsequent research on the subject: When I first arrived in Norman, Oklahoma, for my postdoctoral fellowship in 1996, one of the first projects I started on my own was to see if […]
Margaret Mead joins LFHCfS
Margaret Mead has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, as an historical honorary member. Ann Sasahara, who nominated her, says: Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who moved us away from ethnocentric anthropological studies to less judgemental, more culturally-relativistic studies. She taught us that our culture has certain beliefs and other […]
Ritual object: Plush for eternity
Scholars of ritual have a new kind of domestic trinket that cries out, if silently and with full patent protection, for study. The object is described in U.S. patent# 7,308,741, which was granted December 18, 2007 to Mary F. Rydberg of Scottsdale, Arizona and Sharon M. Robinson of Fountain Hills, Arizona. Huggable cremated remains storage […]