(That’s an excerpt from the article “Puzzling Solutions,” published in AIR 14:3.)
Man *can* live by theory alone
Can humans live completely according to a theory? Apparently so, if one uses the logic in Peter Huber‘s book Hard Green: Saving The Environment From The Environmentalists A Conservative Manifesto. Huber writes: Cut down the last redwood for chopsticks, harpoon the last blue whale for sushi, and the additional mouths fed will nourish additional human […]
Technical details: UOIT means…???
The Canadian academic institution known as UOIT is somewhat secretive about what those letters — U O I T — stand for. Visitors to the institution’s web site http://www.uoit.ca/ can spend a happy quarter of an hour or more exploring the site hardly ever (except by extraordinary luck!) running across a page that spells out […]
Improbable Research Collection #114
Here’s episode 114 (“Cola quibbles, coiffed chemists”) of the Improbable Research TV series, featuring further anti-seminal research from 2008 Ig Nobel medicine prize winner Dr. Deborah J. Anderson (also seen in Collection #113) and three special members of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). To see it, click on the image at right, […]