Who would have thought that doing too well on a test could get you in trouble? Certainly not Tony Williams. After passing a new online test on ethics required of all state employees, the tenured professor in the English department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale received a notice from his university ethics officer and […]
About: Alice Shirrell Kaswell
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Bio-psycho-social cutesy-soothy logo
Investigator Tim Churches writes: You might be interested in the devilishly cute (but happy) heart logo of the newly launched open access journal, BioPsychoSocial Medicine. It appears that this journal is an offshoot of the official organ of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, which according to its President is “an interdisciplinary academic society consisting […]
Medieval help desk (in theory)
?ystein and Meg recreate, in a short video, a (theoretical) incident handled by a medieval help desk. (Thanks to investigator John Hoyland for bringing this to our attention.)
When a paper currency fails
Between October 1, 1993 and January 24, 1995 prices increased by 5 quadrillion percent. This number is a 5 with 15 zeroes after it. So writes Thayer Watkins, Ph.D., in “What Happens When A Paper Currency Fails? The Worst Episode of Hyperinflation in History: Yugoslavia 1993-94.” (Thanks to investigator Gill Vrebel for bringing this to […]