John Greenhouse gasses on about trays, in the very first words of his patent, #55565, issued on June 4, 1907: To nil whom it may concern: Be it known that I, John Greenhouse, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge. Springs, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain […]
Month: February 2012
Flegr’s dominance/submissivity/sadomasochism/internet-trap test
Jaroslav Flegr [pictured here] devises complex tests to discern effects that may be suble. Here he is, at it in 2006: “Dominance, submissivity (and homosexuality) in general population. Testing of evolutionary hypothesis of sadomasochism by internet-trap-method,” Eva Jozifkova and Jaroslav Flegr, Neuroendocrinology Letters, vol. 27, no. 6, 2006, pp 711-8. The authors, at Charles University […]
Magazine: Body Parts issue
The special body parts issue (vol. 18, no. 1) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about feet and heads and belly navels—and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers today. Click on the magazine cover (below) to download a free PDF, or buy a high-quality […]
“The finest piece of plastic-surgeon’s porn”
Investigator Lee Chalmers alerts us to the existence of what he or she calls “The finest piece of plastic-surgeon’s porn ever published in a medical journal”. Chalmers faults us—correctly— for not including mention of it in the just-published special Body Parts issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. The study is: “Concepts in aesthetic breast dimensions: […]