How to demonstrate your mastery of international law, if you are an expert? One way is to sue an academic journal in another country for publishing a review of your book. Dr. Karin Calvo-Goller, a scholar based in Israel, wrote a book. The European Journal of International Law published a review of the book. Dr. […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Knuckle Cracking (1999)
Dr. Donald Unger [pictured here], who was awarded the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine, is not the only scientist to study knuckle cracking. Consider, if you will: “Consequences of Knuckle Cracking: A Report of Two Acute Injuries,” P.S. Chan, D.R. Steinberg, and D.J. Bozentka, American Journal of Orthopedics, vol. 28, no. 2, February 1999, […]
Shit Chew, Scientist of the Month
This month’s Undersung Scientist is Dr. Shit F. Chew of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Chew’s work has gone too-little noticed by the broader science community. Her publications include: “Urea synthesis in the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi-hepatic carbamoyl phosphate synthetase III and glutamine synthetase are upregulated by 6 days of […]
Poison: The Perfume
Poison, the perfume (click on image, right). And a 1951 report about poison, the perfume: “Attractive wrapping of poisonous preparations a danger to children; with reference to two cases of poisoning with Maletta perfume tablets,” Sven Lakartidn. 1951 Jun 1;48(22):1364-7.