If you are a young man inclined to read old books about amusement for men who were, at the time the books were written, young, this book may provide some amusement. Called The Young Man’s Book of Amusement, it was published in 1856, and is now online thanks to Google Books:
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Dinosaur hunter Horner hoax? Huh?
Investigator Virginia Cox sent us this note: If you, like me, like dinosaurs, you have been following the adventures of paleontologist Jack Horner. He is my hero. Can you or one of your readers tell me, though, if this is a hoax? A newspaper called the Bozeman Magpie has this report: “Famous Paleontologist Jack Horner […]
Analyses of Bread: (1) Thick and (2) Old
We give you this day double your daily ration of studies about bread: “PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THICK BREAD SAMPLES,” Mohamed Baker Al-Bedri, Ikram Jameel Abdul Ghani, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Al-Aghil, International Journal of PIXE, Volume: 19, Issues: 3-4(2009) pp. 133-141. (thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our […]
Old folks have big ears
Old men have big ears, is the consensus of several medical studies. The most celebrated work focused exclusively on men, according with British male doctordom’s smug tradition of showing interest mainly in themselves. But in Japan and in Germany, wide-ranging investigations have made plain a long-untold half of the story: that old women also have […]