The Marcellus Mystery, described in the October mini-AIR, concerns a research paper that seems to have been co-written by three (3) people each named Lenora Marcellus. It prompted this letter from Alan W. Harris: I don’t know about Marcellus, et al., but here’s another for you: Alan W. Harris and Alan W. Harris, “On the […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The Flying Snails of Penge
Investigator D. Edwards writes in reference to a citation we presented in mini-AIR 2004-07. The citation is: “http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~fwelter/flyingsnails.htm”>Flying Snails — How Far Can Truncatellina (Pulmonata: Vertiginidae) Be Blown Over the Sea?” C. Kirchner, R. Kr?tzner and F.W. Welter-Schultes, Journal of Molluscan Studies, vol. 63, 1997, pp. 479-87. Investigator Edwards offers this: Here in bosky Penge […]
Understanding Economists
For a new, graphical approach to understanding the behavior of economists, try clicking on the button here. (Thanks to investigator Martin Meder for bringing this to our attention.)
Pek on “Serendipity”
We asked Pek Van Andel to review the world’s most provocative book about serendipity. Pek is an Ig Nobel Prize winner (for leading the team that took the first MRI images of a couple’s sexual organs while those organs were in use.) Here is his review. ————– Serendipity: the Prince?s Road This Begriffsgeschichte, this funny, […]