I see from the current columns of the daily press that “Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just invented a highly concentrated form of food. All the essential nutritive elements are put together in the form of pellets, each of which contains from one to two hundred times a...
George Akerlof, the absent minded professor. But in fact there are two types of Nobel Prize winners: the real ones who deserve to get it by themselves because they are giant timbers in the forest, and then the second tier ones who got ...
Other theories touching on the nature and origins of language that have had some vogue include that of Professor Jayne’s 1976 bookThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a fascinating and bold attempt to explain language and, more fundamentally, consciousness itself. R...
When he made it back to Maui in early 1996, THE LEISURE SCIENTISTS were newly incarnated with Marcus Johnson, Gerry Davis, Rudy Esquire and Margaret Rainsford. "DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY" was produced with this line-up, drawing on popular new material from their club shows - at venues such as Hapa...
There was no use in my having bought a sage-green fedora in Broadway, and a sporting tie done up crosswise with spots as big as nickels. These little adornments can never hide the soul within. I was a professor, and he knew it, or at least, as part of his business, he could ...
“Granted Professor!” nodded the expedition leader. “Bring all the trucks in. That way we can unload all the photographic and documentation equipment. Take a rope and a crowbar—” Van der Meer interrupted, “You don’t have to explain, Jacinta. This part is my forte — it comes with...