An historic meeting has just happened in Palmerston, New Zealand. Investigator Betsy Devine writes (and writes, also, about this phase of Internet-availability history): Here you see Frank with New Zealand?s own James Watson?no, not the infamous James Watson biology Nobel but the deservedly honored (with a 2005 Ig Nobel Prize) author of a paper on […]
Month: January 2008
The Lie Guy
Stan B. Walters claims, honestly or not, that he is The Lie Guy. As proof of a sort, he informs people that he has trademarked the phrase “The Lie Guy.” Mr. Walters owns U.S. trademark # 75382040.
About Cassidy
Cassidy?s theories are insubstantial, his evidence inconclusive, his conclusions unlikely, his Gaelic atrocious and even factitious, and his scholarship little better than speculation. In short, his book is preposterous. Cassidy paints himself as the maligned scholar, the unappreciated genius, the outsider. He may be all of those things, but he is them by choice: his […]
Apples and Oranges: translation #1
Scott Sandford’s classic 1995 AIR article ‘Apples and Oranges: a comparison‘ has recently been translated into Dutch by chemistry teacher Machiel Stolk. The translation ‘Appels en peren: een vergelijking‘ comes together with questions for students on the subject of absorbtion-spectroscopy. Please note that the Dutch are used to compare apples with pears, contrary to oranges: […]