Mark this date: 16 September 2004, 4:00 pm. Larry Martin and I are doing a public lecture in the Center for East Asian Studies Wine and Cheese series (no, I am not making this up), at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, on Godzilla. So writes investigator J.E. Simmons. He is not making it up. Read […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Warrier Bird Memorial
Investigator Andrew Conroy writes, in regard to the ” British Strategic Pigeon Initiative vs. American Strategic Missile Defense Initiative” survey that was conducted in mini-AIR 2004-06 and mini-AIR 2004-07: In Worthing, UK, we have the world’s only war memorial to birds lost in action! This memorial to so-called “Warrior Birds” resides in Beach House Park […]
In Memorium: Gretchen Worden
Our friend Gretchen Worden, the director and soul of the Mutter Museum, has died. We and the world will miss her and her view of the world very much. Here is a passage from Gretchen’s obituary in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “In most museums you go to look at objects,” she wrote in [her] book’s [The […]
Bryozoans Are Beautiful
Bryozoans are beautiful creatures. Or at least they photograph well. See some lovely pictures on the front and back covers of volume 10, no. 3 of the Annals of Improbable Research. See those here. The photos were taken by Simon Hall of the University of Bristol. Read one of his research reports about Bryozoans here.