The story of dude – its rise, its role, its rich history as a word – takes 25 pages to tell. University of Pittsburgh linguistics professor Scott Fabius Kiesling‘s analysis of dude is entitled "Dude"…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
Does the earth rotate? NO!
A book called Does the earth rotate? NO!, by William Westfield, was published in 1919.
Sensing the trickle
A news report [you must be a subscriber of C&EN to read it, though] in the September 19, 2005 issue of Chemical & Engineering news says that: The Swiss government has installed singing urinals in Switzerland’s public lavatories to help diagnose prostate problems. The urinals are powered by sensors that can tell if the stream […]
Not a spitball
Though it looks like an action multiple-exposure photo of a spitball nailing an especially good target a photo by Peter den Hartog simply — well, maybe not so simply — shows an eclipse of the moon seen in Madrid.