A Slob was appreciated twelve years ago, in the September, 2008 issue of mini-AIR. Let’s take a fond look back:
2008-09-08 More Sex From A. Slob
Investigator P.J. Finn complains that we have neglected the once-popular feature called “Sex From A. Slob.” Dr. Slob, investigator Finn reminds us, is based at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. To lessen investigator Finn’s unhappiness, the series resumes:
SEX FROM A. SLOB (1)
“Sexual Arousability and the Menstrual Cycle,” A. Koos Slob, et al., Psychoneuroendocrinology. vol. 21, no. 6, August 1996, pp. 545-58.
SEX FROM A. SLOB (2)
“Age, Libido, and Male Sexual Function,” A. Koos Slob, Prostate, vol. 10, 2000, pp. 9-13.
That same issue of min-AIR included a rare star turn from science limericist R. Burpee Bohaker.
There was, too, a preview of that year (2008)’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony:
2008-09-06 More about the Ig
More of what’s on tap at the ceremony:
This year’s 24/7 Lecturers (each explaining a subject first in 24 seconds, then in seven words) and their topics:
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals
Anna Lysyanskaya: Cryptography
Steven Pinker: The Human Mind
Dany Adams: Biology
William Lipscomb: RedundancyThe ceremony will include the Win-a-Date-With-Benoit-Mandelbrot Contest, and the premiere, for the first time, of the mini-opera “Redundancy, Again.”
Also, several past winners are returning to take a bow.
