Today is a big day for Rub?n Serral Graci?, for two reasons. He is defending his Ph.D. thesis at Universiteit van Amsterdam, and he is the newest member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). We hope you will join us in offering our congratulations!
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Dr. Reisman is Excited
Dr. Judith Reisman, whom we profiled recently, is now reported to be in a new sex-fueled frenzy. Some time right after our profile appeared, Dr. Reisman’s online collection of wonderfully explicit dirty pictures, which she produced so that the public could recognize what to avoid looking at, was removed from her web site. Or perhaps […]
Who/What is Them?
"For cognitive psychologists, the student is the ideal subject. They are our drosophila, those hearty fruit flies studied by geneticists because they breed rapidly and have short lives and can be selectively bred for all sorts of traits." So says Roddy Roediger, in an essay called "What Should They Be Called?"
Pimple on Frankenstein
It is time, once again, to celebrate one of academia’s most memorable courses: “Frankenstein in America: Science, Technology, and Values in the United States,” American Studies Program, Indiana University (1997). A202, Section 0343, Spring 1997 Kenneth D. Pimple, Ph.D. Tuesday-Thursday 8:00-9:15 am, Ballantine Hall 333 Description The name “Frankenstein” evokes the very clear image of […]