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Entries from October 2007

Strange Stuff Falls From Sky and Won’t Stop

October 14th, 2007 · No Comments

For those of you thinking of moving here from California, be warned. That stuff that comes out of your lawn sprinklers actually falls from the sky here. Really! It also doesn’t shut off after 30 minutes which can be a real bummer.
Here’s another brutal discover. Check out the photo of my windshield. Looks like someone [...]

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Ithaca Professor Wins Ig Nobel Prize

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The contemptuous Ig Nobel prize recently landed on the desk of a Cornell researcher. Brian Wansink spent his time proving something that we couldn’t have possible known without science proving it: we eat because the food is there. REALLY? Gosh!
He took a bowl of soup, rigged it so that it continuously refilled, then stuck a [...]

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