A press release reports yet another scientifical breakthrough: The Breakup 2.0:’ A look at how new media is used to end relationships BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Leslie checked her Facebook profile late one day and discovered that she was suddenly single…. There are now many more ways to break up — both in public and in […]
Month: July 2010
Academic fossilisation alert
“The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called ‘academic inbreeding’ has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement,” says this report: But, until recently, precise details regarding the levels of possible damage have not been formally quantified. Progress has been made, however, by a […]
Limb tally: Alleged robber assessed
The Masslive web site reports an incident in Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield police charge one-armed man with unarmed robbery Police charged a one-armed man with unarmed robbery early Wednesday afternoon following an incident that occurred about noon on Wednesday a block away from the police station. The suspect, Manuel Hernandez, 28, of 52 Avon Place, goes […]
Auto exhaust along the Milky Way
Investigator Scott Sandford alerts us to this pathblazing study: “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and the unidentified infrared emission bands: Auto exhaust along the Milky Way,” L.J. Allamandola, A.G.G.M. Tielens and J.R. Barker, Astrophysical Journal, vol. 290, 1985, pp. L25-L28.