There are a plethora of scientific research projects which have investigated the Moon’s effect on what might seem to be unrelated earthly occurrences. They tend to break down into two categories – those which find there’s no effect, and those which find there is. No effect, for example on the Spanish suicide rate. Though the […]
Tag: Crime
The scientist who says he rose up against crime
Prof John Hagelin‘s decision not to run against Mitt Romney and Barack Obama left this year’s US presidential race without a major candidate who is a scientist and who acknowledges – publicly – his ability to both counteract gravity and prevent crime. Two decades ago, Hagelin and a team of fellow scientists performed a bold experiment. […]
Ig-Nobel-winning spam pioneer indicted again
Sanford Wallace, who proudly and perhaps correctly claims credit for the early growth spurt of computer spam, is having yet another adventure with the legal system. Wallace likes to be called “Spamford”. He was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of communications. The Ig Nobel citation read “neither rain nor sleet nor dark […]
When you’re shopping for a head…
Investigator Albert Bates writes: In case you have never shopped for a head, let me recommend one of my favorites. After unhappy experiences with knock-offs, I always come back to the Bludgeon Head made by the oddly named Crime Sciences Inc. It does the basics. It’s (for me, anyway) reasonably priced at $445. And I […]