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Nest persistence, Not your way, Gun theory, Smell, Says-it-all

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Nest: still abandoned — Brace yourselves. That abandoned bird’s nest is still seated in the mouth of the large, ancient, carved stone human face hanging high on a wall in the northernmost corner of the outdoor garden […]

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Nest in mouth, Black hole battery, Non-author authors

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Nest in mouth — Curious items lurk unnoticed in large museums. The photo above shows one of them: a bird’s nest seated in the mouth of a large, ancient, carved stone human face. Feedback recently had the […]

Tuesday Night: Ig Nobel in Rome!

Join us in Rome  — Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30 pm. — at Libreria Assaggi di San Lorenzo, Via degli Etruschi, 4, Roma. Marc Abrahams, Gilberto Corbellini (Sapienza University of Rome), Mario De Caro (University of Roma Tre), Armando Massarenti (Sunday Sole 24 Ore) will discuss the Ig Nobel Prizes. Yuri Ivanenko (Fondazione Santa Lucia) will make his first public appearance in […]

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