Mistakes happen, or so they say. This essay analyzes one such mistake: “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Chattel,” by Margo Wilson and Martin Daly [both pictured here]. In, J.H. Barkow, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby, Eds. , The Adapted Mind. Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. 1992. Oxford University Press. New York. […]
Year: 2013
Markus Janczyk joins hair club for scientists (LFHCfS)
Markus Janczyk has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Roland Pfister, LFHcFs, who nominated him, says: Markus has specialized in causing interference in various settings which he creates in the psychological laboratory. If not in the lab, he tries to cause an equal amount of trouble by his ragged, mountaineerish appearance that culminates in his […]
The which bone is connected backwards to the what bone?
Two stories of bones believed to be in backwards: old and new. (Thanks to investigator Lauren Maurer for bringing the new case to our attention.)
No new news about pubic lice yet, despite report
Why the sudden interest in the declining number of pubic lice, seen by doctors? The Bloomberg news piece ‘Brazilian Bikini Waxes Make Crab Lice Endangered Species’ is not much different from the reports that made the papers in 2007, when I started my quest to save ‘the last of the pubic lice’ for the collection […]