Worms and two limericks about weasel words grace the December 2024 issue of mini-AIR, our free monthly little e-newsletter of stuff that’s too tiny to fit into the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. If you’d like each new issue of mini-AIR to be emailed to you, add yourself to the distribution list. Here is the winning-limericks passage from this month’s mini-AIR: […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Diet of worms? — The phrase “diet of worms” intrigues people (if it intrigues them at all) in various ways. For historians, it can trigger arguments about a political convocation that happened in the city of […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Legless on the shore — Extremities can bring confusion even to trained experts. Joanna Glengarry and Melanie Archer at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Australia warn that forensic pathologists and anthropologists “should be prepared to […]
Info and maybe advice for admirers of thorny-headed worms: “Hooking the Scientific Community on Thorny-Headed Worms: Interesting and Exciting Facts, Knowledge Gaps and Perspectives for Research Directions on Acanthocephala,” Marie-Jeanne Perrot-Minnot, Camille-Sophie Cozzarolo, Omar Amin, Daniel Barčák, Alexandre Bauer, Vlatka Filipović Marijić, Martín García-Varela, et al., Parasite, vol. 30 2023.