“The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it […]
Month: February 2012
Improbable Research @ AAAS in Vancouver Saturday
Please join us TONIGHT, Saturday night, February 18, at 7:00 pm for the annual Improbable Research show at the AAAS annual meeting. Details: AAAS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Mackenzie Room. [Read Pete McMartin’s preview in the Vancouver Sun.] Featuring: Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research editor and founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony John Senders of the University […]
When eggs were falling
“EGGS ARE FALLING“, says an ambiguously worded headline in the March 12, 1910 issue of the Lawrence Daily World. BONUS: The much later development of the square egg BONUS (and possibly bogus, despite and because of which it drew angry letters from the same person): Experiment: Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg?
Jamaican patois paper
Hubert Devonish, who is Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, is one of the very, very few researchers to have published a scholarly paper written entirely in Jamaican Patois. An example paragraph : “In plentii konchrii, di piipl-dem no taakin di seem langgwij an no fiil se dem […]