Love dinosaurs, or love the men who loved dinosaurs too well, or love games, or love a good fight, or love history? If you love any of those things, you may be predisposed to enjoy the game called Bone Wars. Here is the description given by the game’s inventors: BONE WARS: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology […]
Tag: scientists
More scientists with their heads in the clouds
Investigator Ben Brockert answered our call to find more scientists whose heads are in the clouds (as documented in photos on their own web sites). Here are; Philip Rasch, Paul DeMott, and the pseudonymous Wandering Scientist (click on each image to go to the corresponding web site):
Calling All Bearded Scientists Near DC!
Bearded scientists! You are invited to convene in Washington, DC this Saturday night to meet the lead author of the study “Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men” [Applied Microbiology, vol. 15, no. 4, July 1967, pp. 899–906]. Manuel Barbeito was awarded the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize in public health, but he was unable, for health […]
More Scientists Going Gaga
By some reckoning, Lady Gaga invented herself so that scientists could parody her songs, which themselves are parodies. [Recall this and this, if you will.] Here’s the latest, from the Zheng lab. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize-winning fruit bat fellatio researcher Gareth Jones for bringing it to our attention)