Ed Theriot, co-author of the classic article “The Taxonomy of Barney“, writes after seeing a web site about Darwin’s beard: Musing on stuff that is not necessarily clearly connected to anything else: My dad and I were duck hunting one morning in South Louisiana. A cold front had just passed. The sun was not yet […]
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Too much data? Sword + laureates
One might almost think there are people who track every conceivable kind of information. Today’s evidence for this notion, from something named “The Universal Record Database”: Largest Group Of Nobel Laureates To Remove A Sword From Someone’s Throat The photo, and the action it shows, is from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.