“This is the first time cat DNA has been used in a criminal trial in the UK.” That’s the killer quote from a report by Alan Boyle for MSNBC, under the headline: “Elementary, my dear Fluffy: Cat DNA solves another homicide“ The University of Leicester issued a proud press release, giving background on the case. […]
Tag: Crime
Purloining of burglary and other crime material, they say
A scientist suggests that others have committed wrongs with some of his research. Martin Short, who is CAM Assistant Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Mathematics Department, writes on his web site: Published Works … [7] M.B. Short, M.R. D’Orsogna, P.J. Brantingham, and G.E. Tita, Measuring and modeling repeat and near-repeat burglary effects, J. Quant. Criminol. 25 (2009) [6] M.B. […]
Bicycle tracks – still being covered
As Sherlock Holmes aficionados will know, in the 1903 story ‘The Adventure of the Priory School’, Holmes determined the direction in which a bicycle was travelling simply by observing the tyre tracks which it had made – asserting that the deeper of the two wheel marks must have come from the heavier rear wheel … […]
Kids’ Music Preferences and Their Delinquency
If you dislike the music your kids listen to, then (depending on what kind of music they like) you have a new club to swing at them. See this study: “Early Adolescent Music Preferences and Minor Delinquency.” Tom FM Ter Bogt [pictured here, possibly listening to music], Loes Keijsers, and Wim HJ Meeus, Pediatrics, epub […]