Google’s new tool, the books ngram viewer, lets you track the relative occurrence of different words in lotsa books over a long period of time. We used it to gain insight (or whatever) into two phenomena: UP and DOWN had their ups and downs over time. Note that they seemed to go up and down […]
Year: 2010
Sara Muhonen joins LFHCfS
Sara Muhonen joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says: My research is about the gastrointestinal tract and exercise in horses and as you can see in the picture my hair can compete with the mane of a horse. Sara Muhonen, AgrD, LFHCfS Postdoctoral researcher AgroSup Dijon Dijon, France
“Please stop. I’m bored” mug
If you’re calculating what gift would be best for that improbable someone in your life, consider the power of a Miss Sweetie-Poo-inspired “Please stop. I’m bored” mug. Or if your improbable person is more of a traditionalist, go with a gift subscription to the world’s possibly best magazine, the Annals of Improbable Research. Either is […]
Toilet Tragedy: Smoked Butt to Burned Butt
A cautionary report: “A Rare Form of Burn Injury Sustained During Defaecation,” O. Nahlieli,A.M. Baruchin, E. Eliava, and L. Rosenberg, Burns, vol. 25, no. 5, August 1999, pp. 463–4, DOI 10.1016/S0305-4179(99)00019-4. [AIR 16:2]. The authors explain: A 20-year-old painter, soon after concluding his work, poured residual thinner fluid into a toilet without flushing it. After […]