It was back in 1962 that Major-General F M Richardson CB DSO OBE Md (Retired) penned his (now classic) article for the Journal of The Royal Army Medical Corps – entitled : Napoleon’s Sex Life. According to the Major-General, Napoleon exhibited some ‘symptoms’ and had ‘leanings’ which considerably fuzzied his placement on the Kinsey Scale. […]
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Failure to detect color vision in a non-malingerer
If a person insists that they are color blind, how can you prove otherwise? This was the question facing Herbert Jägle, Bettina Sadowski, Jan Kremers, Hendrik P.N. Scholl, Beate Leo-Kottler, and Lindsay T. Sharpe, who set out to devise a method. Their 2003 study was carried out as a result of a court case, in […]
Mick Jagger’s 1969 ‘frock’ – a Fustanella or not?
One of the notable things about Mick Jagger in this video, (taken at Hyde Park, London, on July 5th 1969) is that he appears to be wearing a what some have described as a “little girl’s white party frock”. And some in academia (and elsewhere) have asked why. By way of a scholarly explanation, it’s […]
Military Experiments on Fruitcake (Part 2: 1982-4)
This is part 2 of our look at the US military’s tests, conducted at their laboratories in Natick, Massachusetts, during the 1970s and 1980s, on fruitcake, the time-honored holiday comestible. They issued at least two reports. Here’s a look at their second report: “Effects of Storage Time and Temperature on Nutritional Content of Fortified Fruitcake” [Final […]