We received a kind invitation from someone named Molly Michell. I’m sure we’d all be fascinated to hear her economic take on hammer throwing. Here is Ms. Mitchell’s invitation: > From: Molly Mitchell > Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:08 PM > Subject: Economics Guest Post > > Hi , > > I created […]
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The mystery of Sonneborn’s weird paramecia
[This is a repost, with added imagery and links, from a post in 2000, which was itself a reprint from the magazine. Thus do things propagate….] Sonneborn and the Persistently Shapely Paramecia A new look at forgotten or overlooked science by Marc Abrahams EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the beginning of a new, not necessarily humorous, […]
A man who pricked his finger & smelled putrid
Four doctors in Wales [at the hospital pictured below] rose to fame because of a man who pricked his finger and smelled putrid for five years. The doctors were hit nose-on with one of the most baffling medical mysteries on record. It all started with a chicken. The case ended happily – yet mysteriously – […]
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 […]