This month’s Quasi-Poetical-Research-Paper-Title-of-the-Month is “On Quartzite Lenticles in the Schists of South-Eastern Anglesey” read by Edward Greenly (who also read the abstract of the paper) at a meeting of the British Association, in Liverpool on September, 1896. BONUS: Edward Greenly also wrote The metalliferous mines of Parys Mountain.
Month: August 2010
August issue of mini-AIR
The August issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Survey Results – Lab Assistants Named Igor; Discovering Interesting Holes; Drug Snorting Fire-Eater Poet; Medieval-Scenes-of-Ritual-Circumcision Competition; The Man in the White Suit; Bronzed Grackle “Anting” with Mothballs; A Device to Improve the Schleger and Turner Method for Sweating Rate Measurements; etc. Mel [pictured here] says, […]
Blowfly maggot’s medicine extracted?
Big, albeit to some people icky, maggot news: “Lucifensin, the Long-Sought Antimicrobial Factor of Medicinal Maggots of the Blowfly Lucilia sericata,” Lenka Monincova, Zdenek Voburka, Robert Bem, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, vol. 67, 2010, pp. 455–66. (Thanks to Mitch Dushay for bringing this to our attention.) The image here shows “Left toe neuroischaemic foot […]
Young Jump Ig Nobel manga (pt 1)
The manga magazine Young Jump has written a two-part series about the history of the Ig Nobel Prizes. Here, below, are a few (non-sequential) pages from part 1, which was published on August 26. (The magazine’s cover is reproduced here, at right.) Part 1 features the founding of the Igs and of the magazine Annals […]