Julia K. Parrish has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Tom Good, who nominated her, says: Dr. Julia K. Parrish is a Professor/Associate Director of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences in the School for Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. Her hair may be seen being washed in the field in […]
Year: 2008
November mini-AIR
The November issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Random Question; Salute to Smets; Absurd-Drug-Names; Delicious-Guinea-Pigs Substitute; That-Which-Lurketh-Between Competition; No Rest for the Healthy; Inertia, Blowholes, Punk; etc. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, please subscribe to it. It’s free.)
Statistician Prince and the mistress-money survey
According to a new survey by Prince & Assoc., more than 80% of multimillionaires who had extra-marital lovers planned to cut back on their gifts and allowances. Still, only 12% of the multimillionaire cheaters said they plan to give up on their lovers altogether for financial reasons. “Rich people are getting hit, and they’re all […]
Is Obama the Antichrist?
Is Obama the Antichrist? asks a November 15, 2008 headline in Newsweek magazine. The answer, of course, is almost certainly no. Mikhail Gorbachev is the Antichrist—something we know thanks to Robert Faid, author of the book “Gorbachev! Has the Real Antichrist Come?“, in which Mr. Faid calculates the exact odds (710,609,175,188,282,000 to 1) that Gorbachev […]