Investigator Stanley Eigen writes: What’s wrong with baseball – mathematically that is? I don’t know but apparently G.H. Hardy did. Hardy was a pure mathematician in Cambridge. Outside of mathematics, he is probably best known as having recognized the Indian genius Ramanujan. Just to remind you, Ramanujan was a poor clerk in Madras with limited […]
Year: 2008
October mini-AIR
The October issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Ig Nobel winners; Genoa presentation; tongue scraper poets, Delicious Guinea Pigs; Draculaic Disorders; Oddington, Genius, Ghoul; Almond/Dracula; Supersymmetry and Ghosts; etc. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, please subscribe to it. It’s free.)
The Cingulate Cortex Does Everything
Here we explain most of the mysteries concerning the brain. We report the “Cingular Theory of Unification,” which postulates that one brain region — the “cingulate cortex” — is the alpha and omega, responsible for all of humankind’s functions. We believe that this theory not only explains the available data, but also prophesizes exponential growth […]
Mark Keusenkothen joins LFHCfS
Mark Keusenkothen has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. LFHCfS member Joseph J. Luczkovich, who nominated him, says: I would like to nominate my grad student (who enthusiastically agreed to be nominated, or else he does not get a PhD). Mark Keusenkothen, LFHCfS Diving Safety Officer, and biology graduate student East Carolina University […]