How to build a great academic department
From an interview of mathematician Christopher Zeeman by Justin Mullins in the July 21, 2007, New Scientist: Q: You built a world-class mathematics department from scratch at the University of Warwick...
View ArticleSurgical modification for iPhone?
A North Denver Newsarticle article by James Benfly reported: Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So he has a hard time using the features on ever-shrinking user interfaces on devices like...
View ArticleBugs marketed as features: diet fork
I found out from FARK about a diet fork with the following features: Shorter and dulled teeth inhibiting user from grasping larger pieces of food at any one time Smaller triangular shaped surface area...
View ArticleBush's missionary position
I heard on the January 26 episode of "Wait Wait... Don't Tell me!" about President Bush's misconceptions about the favorite painting he hung in the Oval Office. According to The Bush Tragedy:In an...
View ArticleStraight-talking homeopaths
From the February 2 New Scientist: Thanks to Alex Gough for pointing us in the direction of FairDeal Homeopathy, online purveyors of homeopathic remedies. Their website is intriguing, and not at all...
View ArticleMore trouble with automated suggestions
The online world is abuzz over the above Amazon search result for "terrorist costume", with outraged readers of the LA Times Blog vowing never to shop at Amazon again. Despite being an Obama supporter,...
View ArticleAnti-same-sex marriage ad and spoof
The so-called National Organization for Marriage issued a strange ad against legalizing same-sex marriage: While Human Rights Campaign has issued a rebuttal of the ad's claims, the ad has more...
View ArticleDon't worry: They're not racists
Boston police officer Justin Barrett sent an email [1] to the Boston Globe and his National Guard colleagues saying that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates behaved like a "banana-eating jungle monkey"...
View ArticleAnother Not a Racist
Add to the list of not a racists Georgia businessman Patrick Lanzo, who put up a large sign outside of his bar, reading: "OBAMAS HEALTH CARE PLAN - NIGGER RIG IT". Lanzo explained:"I've used the N-word...
View Article"Not a racist" justice of the peace denies marriage license to interracial...
Via the Associated Press: A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell,...
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