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The murder victim arrives (video)
The dominoes-murder-victim sparrow, after an adventure-packed life and death and afterlife, and despite a partial news cover-up, has arrived at the Nature Museum in Rotterdam. Kees Moeliker personally chauffered the bird on its final 400-kilometer journey. Moeliker, the 2003 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner who is the museum’s curator of birds, sent us this message: […]
Penguins in Turkmenistan
There’s further news on the penguin front. According to a long chain of second-, third-, and off-hand reports: Turkmenistan‘s eccentric president is to spend millions of pounds on a lavish desert zoo – to house penguins. President Saparmurat Niyazov has issued decrees in the past banning recorded music and men with long hair. Now, he […]
Shake, rattle and read
If you find that reading makes you vibrant, then you’ll want to get a copy of a report called Effects of Horizontal Whole-Body Vibration on Reading, by Michael Griffin and RA Hayward…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
