Sharlie Huffman, P.Eng., the noted bridge seismic engineer, has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Huffman is at the Ministry of Transportation, in Victoria, British Columbia. The institution is (or soon will be) renowned for its abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.
Country Music/Suicide Lecture
James Gundlach, professor of sociology and co-winner of the 2004 Ig-Nobel Prize for Medicine, presents ?Research Enters the Culture Wars: The Effects of Country Music and Abortion on Suicide? Wednesday, January 26 at noon in Foy Room 213 at Auburn University. (This news comes from a report in the January 20, 2005 issue of The […]
Library shushing
"Foul-Mouthed Patron Drops Lawsuit" is the headline in a recent report in the journal American Libraries. The report begins: A patron who sued the Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library after being banned for using obscene language has dropped his federal lawsuit. In a December 6 letter to U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh, author Fredric […]
Good hair at Kokomo and ASU
Two reptile ecological physiologists — Michael Finkler and Emily Taylor — have joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Finkler is at Indiana University Kokomo. Taylor is at Arizona State University. Both institutions are (or soon will be) renowned for their abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.