All posts tagged with random scholar

Random Scholar: "Plenty of genuine tails"

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I was doing some research involving Aleš Hrdlička, and ran across this curious item published in Science in 1926 (“Human tails: a statement and correction”),...

Charlemagne the tall

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I found an interesting, short paper doing a bit of forensic investigation on Charlemagne Ruhli:Charlemagne:2010:

Channerin' worms

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Random fact:

The Random Scholar: brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt

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Reading up on inbreeding depression and deleterious recessive alleles, I happened across a reference to a 1997 paper by W. Scheidel:

The Random Scholar: What makes monkey scrotums blue?

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Another one of those random Google Scholar results:

The Random Scholar: crayfish urine battles

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I think I'll make this a new feature, since all kinds of interesting things pop up in my Google Scholar searches. Here's one: