Diane Pham has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: Since I was young, I have been told that I have perfect hair – straight, soft, and shiny, and I have been the envy of many people since. Currently, I am a graduate student in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University […]
Month: July 2010
S. Dogg/Liechtenstein/Ig Nobel kerfuffle
New reports (in The Mirror and elsewhere) say that musician Snoop Dogg has tried and failed to rent the country of Liechtenstein, which Mr. Dogg wished to use as the setting for a music video. There’s a history to this. Yes, Mr. Dogg would be the first person to actually rent the nation — but Liechtenstein […]
BAD Guidelines Aplenty
BAD Guidelines are guidelines produced by the British Association of Dermatologists. The association must be either (1) aware or (2) unaware that its acronym provokes notice. (We would be interested in hearing from any historian who knows the internal politics behind choosing and propagating that curious acronym. (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for bringing it […]
Penguin/rock music, for real
Investigator John Splettstoesser [pictured here — click on image to see an enlargement] writes: The popular movie “March of the Penguins,” a true-life story of the breeding cycle of Emperor Penguins, and a related movie “Happy Feet,” an animated movie about dancing penguins focused on an environmental theme, has shown that indeed penguins do march […]