Yesterday we looked at the unsuspected (by the general populace) profusion of sleep societies. Today we list four less-than-universally-celebrated sleep associations: Australasian Sleep Association American Sleep Association Pacific Northwest Sleep Association The Specialty Sleep Association
Ig live webcast Wed, March 15
The Ig Nobel show at Daresbury Lab, Warrington, will be webcast on Wednesday, March 15, at 7:00 pm GMT. [If you’re in a different time zone, figure out your local time-of-day equivalent.] This event will be webcast live at http://www.liveconf.dl.ac.uk/. Details of this and the other shows on the tour are on the tour web […]
Sleep societies
Though the public little suspects it, there is more than one sleep society. Here is a partial list. The British Sleep Society The Canadian Sleep Society The Kentucky Sleep Society The Southern Sleep Society The Northeast Sleep Society The Tennesee Sleep Society Carolina Sleep Association (and let us not overlook The Swiss Sleep Society)
Apples & oranges, and comets
Scott Sandford has unusually deep knowledge of apples and oranges, and of comets. a March 14, 2006 Reuters news report touches on his comet knowledge: U.S. scientists unearth hot rocks from cold comet HOUSTON (Reuters) – Particles from any icy comet that were collected and returned to Earth aboard a NASA science satellite show dozens […]
