Chili’s World, by my friend Santiago Casares, is now in its fourth season! Don’t miss the adventures of Chili, the shy penguin looking for love, Lenny, the lemming with philosophical issues, Mac the cat, and Alice! Here’s one of my favorites so far:
As reported in La Jornada, two Mexican scientists retracted three articles published in Journal of Organic Chemistry, Tetrahedron, and Tetrahedron Letters after finding that the results were irreproducible. The principal investigator is Prof. Eusebio Juaristi, a very well-respected chemist. It should be pointed out that this is being reported over a year after the initial retraction, so one can’t say that the scientists didn’t admit that there was something wrong with the results in a timely fashion. Making this the main front-page story in a national newspaper is an exaggeration in my opinion, especially giving it a conspiracy-theory title, but we all know that some newspapers like to dramatize things a bit…
My brother sent me these links:
Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades. The Onion, 2004-02-18.
Gillette ups the ante, unveils 5-blade razor. Reuters, 2005-09-14.
A couple of weeks ago I saw this book from 1687 in Beinecke library (sorry for the blurry picture). The text in the title page reminds me of the “for dummies” books, except that it is more verbose and polite:
HODDER’s ARITHMETICK:
Or, that Necessary Art
Made most eaſie
Being explained in a way familiar to the Capacity of any that deſire to learn in a little time.
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