The April issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Kluge’s Masterpiece; Great Research Kluges, Journals for Your Life Cycle; Why Bedouin Robes Are Not Gray, Perhaps; Peat-Bog Man’s Intestines Competition; Music Response in a Mental Asylum; etc. (If you would like to have mini-AIR automatically sent to your email box every month, please subscribe […]
Problems reading your prescription?
Doctors have to suffer jokes about their supposedly horrendous, illegible handwriting. But several studies bolster their reputation for scratchy scribbling.There is illegible handwriting in Australia. We know this from a 1976 study in the Medical Journal of Australia, which tells how the handwriting of “a large number of” doctors and non-doctors was tested and compared. […]
How to Write an Interdisciplinary Research Paper
Saving for retirement can be an arduous task. The galactic fountain model predicts that energetic stellar winds and supernovae in OB associations produce superbubbles containing hot gas that breaks out of the galactic disk, cools radiatively as it rises upward, and recombines and returns to the disk ballistically. Time travel has occurred when the separation […]
Educator Johnson: Improbable is unreliable, bias [sic]
Educator Naomi Johnson concludes that the Improbable.com website ? and in particular a statistics article called “Who Will Win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election?”, written by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy ? is “unreliable, bias[sic] and has no authenticity.” Johnson says “We do not know who the authors are.” Eric Schulman, unknown author, is surprised […]