John Ptak celebrates old, still-unrealized plans to build an airport atop a big chunk of Manhattan and an airport in London spanning the Thames River.
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
What to do if your folks win an Ig?
How should a large institutions react when its people win a significant prize? The University of Chicago Medical Center pondered that question again, but differently, in October 2009. Here’s the preface to an essay they published: Foundational Research: Our (Ig) Nobel Prize In all the hubbub over the Nobel Prizes this week, we don’t want […]
Pratt on Recta-tude
Investigator Stephen Pratt writes: I was a bit disturbed to read (in mini-AIR 2010-02): “Dr. Beatrice Golomb will discuss objects she has found in patients’ rectums”. I admit that I have rarely, if ever, thought before of more than one rectum at a time but surely recta would be the more ‘elegant’ way to form […]
Cursors for researchers
Really Magazine has recently made available a specialised set of Windows™ mouse-cursors aimed at researchers. Including Laser, Test-tube, Geological hammer, Rat and more. They are available (either individually or as sets) as a free download. More specialised categories include cursors for philosophical minimalists, and another for left-handed entomologists. Download here