What is the yellow cake, and what makes it yellow rather than merely cake? “The Yellow Cake” is the title of an article by Andrzej Roslanowski and Saharon Shelah, published in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society… So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.
New Hair Club Scientists
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is proud to welcome two new members: Dr. Ronan Amicel of Rennes, France, and Dr. Huw Kruger Gray, formerly of Great Bentley, Essex, England, and now of Boston Massachusetts, USA. See them here.
Missiles and Bears
For devotees of missile coloring books, there is none more fun than the Missile Defense Agency Coloring Book. See it here. And many of the many admirers of Troy Hurtubise will enjoy drawing home-built armor onto the Bear Aware Coloring Book. See it here.
Riddle Wrapped in a Sleeping Bag
“He was a con artist, but boy, he pulled it off,” Queeney said. “The man was truly a riddle wrapped in a sleeping bag. I don’t know if any of us will ever know who he really was.” So ends an Associated Press (AP) report, published on January 3, 2004, about the man who would […]