In re our report on Owney, the Postal dog, investigator Chris Leadbeater writes: Here’s a British equivalent for Owney, not quite but this dog used to hang around the station, took trips on trains and collected money for charity." The British dog-in-a-box, in the fabled-yet-actual town of Slough, is called Station Jim. To some observers, […]

Here are the winners, and some runners-up, in the Clear-and-Pithy contest that was announced in mini-AIR 2004-11. The contest was to translate this scholarly thought into a clear, accurate SEVEN-WORD summary that ANYONE can understand: "Specifically, I have been concerned with the processes by which individuals construct and enact motivational ‘agendas for action’ that draw […]

Self-caught fish. This term, long misunderstood (as is the “nonsmoking room”), finds and increased level of acceptance and use. So writes investigator Paul Price, who cites two examples that were presented to the Society for Risk Analysis. One is a research report titled “Rum and Fish: Using Recreational Models To Assess Exposure from Consuming Self-Caught […]