The Faculty Lounge blog has a long (but riveting!) account of the very strange story of Tom Lippert. One of its many aspects echoes of the story of Cecil Jacobson (Dr. Jacobson was awarded the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control. [REFERENCE: “The Babymaker : Fertility Fraud and the Fall […]
Tag: paternity
Promiscuity, Paternity and Personality in the Great Tit
A new study further feeds humanity’s insatiable hunger for news about the birds called great tits: “Promiscuity, Paternity and Personality in the Great Tit,” Samantha C. Patrick, Joanne R. Chapman, Hannah L. Dugdale, John L. Quinn and Ben C. Sheldon, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, vol. 279, 2012, pp. 1724-1730. The authors, at the […]
Dr. Cecil Jacobson’s spiritual progeny
Shades of Dr. Cecil Jacobson! Dr. Jacobson — relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking— was awarded the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control. He used his own sperm to inseminate dozens, perhaps hundreds, of his patients, none of whom knew they were […]