Some further items from the Lowering the Bar blog’s collection of legal cases worth pondering, if not studying [that’s our description, not necessarily Lowering the Bar‘s, though not necessarily not, either]: Pardue v. Turnage (La. App. 1980) (“An exhaustive reading of the entire record convinces this court that Kenneth Turnage did give his stuffed bear to the Lessards. For the trial […]
Tag: bear
How science is done: The case of the bear and the purse
A July 4, 2013 report in the Manchester [New Hampshire] Union-Leader illustrates how to begin a scientific investigation. The report begins: Epping woman suspects a bear stole her purse By JASON SCHREIBER, Union Leader Correspondent EPPING — Isobel Parke has no proof, but she has a hunch that a purse-snatching black bear may be on the […]
Approaches to approaches to bears
If you choose to approach a bear, you also get to choose which way to go about your task. Here are three of the many ways. 1. Troy Hurtubise designed, personally tested, then used a purpose-built suit of armor. Hurtubise was later, in 1998, awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in the field of safety engineering. […]
Bear safety: What the governor can learn from Troy
Today’s news brings yet another example of someone who has not learned the bear-safety lesson taught by Ig Nobel Prize-winner Troy Hurtubise. The Associated Press reports, from the capital city of the American state of Vermont: Vermont governor chased by 4 bears in backyard MONTPELIER — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says he was chased and […]