In regards to your column about professor-professors, Makhlouf Makhlouf is actually rumored to be Makhlouf Makhlouf Makhlouf, since his middle initial is M. I have had him as a professor, but I’m to scared to ask. Jocelyn Lally WPI BS ME 2005 MS ME 2007 So says the note we received. At least one piece […]
Females have technical difficulties
20% of the church-going female participants struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis. So says an August 7, 2006 press release from ChristiaNet.com, which describes itself as “the world’s most visited Christian website.” Boasting the headline “ChristiaNet Poll Finds That Evangelicals Are Addicted to Porn,” the press release discusses vice-grip clutches.
Not just a name
Professor-professors are professors whose first and last names are identical. Here are some of the professor-professors who are currently making a name for themselves…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Zimbardo’s favorite rat
Researchers who study rat behavior sometimes come to love their furry colleagues. This photograph shows Philip Zimbardo with one of his rats in the 1950s. Zimbardo went on to world renown. His “Stanford Prison Experiment” is one of the great achievements in the field of psychology. Zimabardo also won the 2003 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize […]