Paul Renteln, Alan Dundes and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) have done either a service or a disservice to the mathematical community. Renteln and Dundes’s compilation of old math jokes has been published in the Notices of the AMS, volume 52, no. 1.
(Thanks to Tom Roberts for bringing this to our attention.)
Tim Deschaines, the noted chemistry professor, and Bob Kinzie, the noted marine biologist, have
joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair
Club for Scientists.
Deschaines is at the University of New Hampshire. Kenzie is at the University of Hawaii. Their institutions are (or soon will be) renowned for their
abundance of luxuriantly-flowing-haired researchers.
A student at Ohio University demonstrated that it’s hard to predict the weather.
Our mentions of boxing rats and cats and flies did not exhaust the list of ring-eligible contenders. There is a plan to equip chickens with boxing gloves. The Associated Press reports that Oklahoma state senator Frank Shurden is a strong supporter of the plan.
In the quest for excellence, some schools craft their own, specially excellent slogan or motto. Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, has the motto: "Powerful Resources, Personal Learning, Everything You Need." This seven-word elegiac poem was born in an intensive research and development programme….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
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