The local newspaper The Cambridge News is a good source for anyone who follows the adventures of the fossilized dung memorial in the British town of Bassingbourn. The paper broke the story, noted the international reactions, and is keeping tabs on developments. (Thanks to Sally Shelton for keeping us current on this matter.)
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The war on luxuriant flowing hair
Kai Jung is spreading the word to everyone who has, and/or admires, luxuriant flowing hair. Dr. Jung is an LFHCfS (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists) man of the year. He writes: Have you seen the BBC article on Korea’s war on LFH? Even the most important German news magazine did an article on it.
Good hair in Chattahoochee
Robert S. Kline, III, Psy.D., the noted psychologist and death metal band singer, has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Kline is at Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee. The institution is (or soon will be) renowned for its abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.
A number of jokes of number
Paul Renteln, Alan Dundes and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) have done either a service or a disservice to the mathematical community. Renteln and Dundes’s compilation of old math jokes has been published in the Notices of the AMS, volume 52, no. 1. (Thanks to Tom Roberts for bringing this to our attention.)