Along with its usual fare — ethnography and anthropology about the peoples of the Western Hemisphere — Paris’s Journal de la Société des Américanistes devoted part of its 1909 issue(*) to a sort of review article summarizing all known extremely tall people of the Americas. These were mostly modern cases of acromegaly who died before […]
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“How is a giant sperm ejaculated?”
Now, at last comes an answer (perhaps the answer) to the question, “How is a giant sperm ejaculated?” The answer is in the form of a published study: “How is a giant sperm ejaculated? Anatomy and function of the sperm pump, or ‘Zenker organ,’ in Pseudocandona marchica (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Candonidae),” Shinnosuke Yamada (pictured here) and […]
The great geoduck hoax photo
Peter Smith, in the Smithsonian’s Food & Think blog, tells of the great geoduck hoax photo. Here’s a copy of that photo: [via Annalee Newitz]
Giant Claw
Most of the scientific discoveries about claimed in this 1957 film have not held up over the succeeding decades. The main subject of inquiry is claws, especially giant claws. The name of the film: “The Giant Claw“. [Thanks to investigator Stevyn Colgan for bringing this to our attention.) Click on the image to be transported […]
The giant slide rule went missing
David Brooks of the Nashua Telegraph reports: Information hard to find about world-record 320-foot slide rule built at Alvirne High School [This] truly gigantic creation – as long as a football field – was built in 1979, just as slide rules were being made obsolete by electronic calculators…. [It] was 320 feet long. Considering that […]