Pet participation
What can canine supply, tangibly, to a metropolis? A solution is forthcoming.
Reader Dorothy Sheckler alerts Suggestions that on 22 July 2024, at a Soil and Water Conservation Society convention in Myrtle Seaside, South Carolina, Brad D. Lee of the College of Kentucky will current his views. Lee’s listed matter? “Companion canine nutrient contributions to peri-urban environments“.
In the course of the discuss, tensions could also be discernible, as a result of the host metropolis has introduced that canine are allowed on the seaside solely earlier than 10am and after 5pm this summer time, and that homeowners “must pick up and properly dispose of the droppings”.
Mussel-bound demise
Detective work and worldwide cooperation have led to the rediscovery of a long-forgotten duo of preserved corpses.
Biologist Kees Moeliker, a scholar of unusual animal behaviour (he found gay necrophilia within the mallard duck, as per Suggestions on 10 February 2024), tells us what occurred.
“Dramatic is the fate of a Danish black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) that stepped on a freshwater mussel in 1952,” he writes. “The mussel closed its valves and would not let go. The (no longer living) evidence – the gull itself with the mussel still attached to its right leg – was on display in an old photo I found deep in the internet.”
Moeliker realized that the picture had been taken on the Museum of Searching and Forestry in Hørsholm, within the east of Denmark. In 2017, that museum grew to become a part of, and was moved to, a distinct establishment now often known as the Inexperienced Museum in Auning, within the west of Denmark. As occurs with any massive, variegated museum assortment, some treasures resided there safely however nearly unnoticed. Moeliker acquired in contact with the Inexperienced Museum’s curator, who plucked the dual merchandise (formally labelled JSH 05542) from obscurity on the lengthy cabinets of a fastidiously chilled constructing.
“In April 2024, I was allowed to view the black-headed gull in the museum’s collection storage facility, and to make this photograph,” Moeliker continues (see beneath). “There I learned more: the gull had not been killed by the mussel’s embrace, but had been shot – with the attached mussel and all – near Sorø in Sjælland [Denmark]. Also special, in that same Danish collection, is item JHS 05924: the single leg of a herring gull found in 1954 trapped in a half-opened tin can.”
Mustache negation
Suggestions consulted a local (and, as wants be specified within the ChatGPT period, human) Iranian translator to unravel a bushy thriller. A curious phrasing seems within the titles of a number of research printed not too long ago in analysis journals in Iran. What follows are are three examples.
“Evaluation of the financial diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in worldwide relations with an emphasis on the rule of negation of the mustache“, printed in Strategic Research of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
“The authorized jurisprudence rationalization of the show of energy and the rise of Iran’s navy protection capabilities with an method to the rule of negation of the mustache“, printed in Protecting and Safety Researches.
“The position of the mustache denial rule within the overseas coverage of the Islamic Republic and worldwide relations“, printed within the Iranian Political Sociology Journal.
Every paper is written in a mixture of Farsi and Arabic, and contains an summary written in English. Every summary, like every title, features a point out of “mustache”.
Why mustache? Suggestions’s language marketing consultant, astonished, explains: “Because the paper’s translator is a complete dunce!! In Arabic, the word for ‘a way [of doing something]’ is sometimes called sabil. In Persian [Farsi], sibil means “mustache”. Possibly the translator is just Google.”
The world will now see what affect these mustachioed papers have on worldwide diplomatic relations.
Mustache measuring
Whereas pursuing the intricacies of the rule of negation of the mustache, Suggestions occurred throughout a (in all probability unrelated) research printed in 1982, known as “Survivorship curves and growth rates for a population of mustache hairs“. Written by Cliff Frohlich and Ruth Buskirk, it reports “measurements of three characteristics of mustache hairs which apparently have not been studied previously, namely, the distribution of hair lengths, the rate of hair growth, and the rate of hair loss, or weathering” – all this in “the untrimmed mustache of a 30-year-old Caucasian male”.
Eleven years later, Frohlich cited that mustache paper in a research, printed within the Journal of Geophysical Analysis: Stable Earth, about some mathematical subtleties in measuring the depth of earthquakes. He identified that, like mustache-hair development, “earthquakes are simply one of a host of phenomena for which logarithmic plots of number versus size are approximately straight”.
Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the journal Annals of Unbelievable Analysis. Earlier, he labored on uncommon methods to make use of computer systems. His web site is inconceivable.com
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