“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well-informed to be undecided about them.”
Empirical Girl
Elizabeth Bonawitz is, by her own admission and at her own insistence, an empirical girl: Somewhat, but only somewhat, by analogy: Not everyone is an empirical girl:
Endless Forms Most Stupid, Icky, and Small
Biology is not all cut, not all dry, not all Disneyfied, not always at all easy to classify tidily. This paper tries to kick any intellectually recalcitrant reader into realizing that: “Endless Forms Most Stupid, Icky, and Small: The Preponderance of Noncharismatic Invertebrates as Integral to a Biologically Sound View of Life,” Jesse E. Czekanski‐Moir […]
Ig Nobel Prize-winning Tamagotchi returns in yet another new form
“Not for nothing in 1997, the creators of the Tamagotchi were winners of the Ig Nobel Prize in Economics: Akihiro Yokoi, of the Wiz Company, of Chiba (Japan), and Aki Maita, of the Bandai Company (Tokyo), father and mother of the Tamagochi, “for turning millions of work hours into lost time taking care of virtual […]