The New York Times reports, on May 30, 2018: Big Banks to Get Reprieve from Volcker Rule Big banks are getting a big reprieve from a post-crisis rule aimed at curbing risky behavior on Wall Street. Federal bank regulators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping plan to soften the Volcker Rule, opening the door for banks […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Official program for the 2018 Dead Duck Day celebration (June 5)
Read, if you will, the official program [in Dutch] for this year’s Dead Duck Day celebration—which will happen June 5, at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dead Duck Day honors the mallard duck that became known to science as the first (documented) ‘victim’ of homosexual necrophilia in that species. The study that […]
Maps of the Many, Many Roads to Heaven and Hell
“There are many woodcuts and broadsides depicting the roads to heaven and hell,” says the Graphic Arts Collection blog, from its cozy home at Princeton University’s Firestone Library. The blog shows and discusses several maps of “The Many, Many Roads to Heaven and Hell.” (Thanks to John Overholt for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS […]
The benefits, to non-scientists, of DNA research: Lennon’s Tooth
Molecular biology research, once seen as exotic, now showers benefits on the population at large. The May 29, 2018 issue of The Irish Sun brings news of the newest benefit: HERE COMES THE SON Dentist who owns John Lennon’s tooth will use DNA test to find Beatle’s potential love children in bid to claim slice of […]