Question to Radio Yerevan: Is it true that Brutus is an honourable man?
Not many people know that in the first draft of Julius Caesar, Mark Antony's funeral oration was couched in the form of an extended Radio Yerevan joke (before Shakespeare's financial backers convinced...
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An extraordinary new cure has just been developed for exactly this kind of...
Wednesdays are Script Workshop and Conodont Phylogeny Nights at the Old Entomologist. Here we all are, wondering where to go next with the long-running GcMAF saga, for readers are calling out for new...
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Wrong on ALL THE LEVELS
Imma sure there is nothing hinky about this freelancer-recruitment advertisement at Upwork: I need someone to collect images of 100 human beings in certain format. This data will be strictly used only...
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Hello darkness, my old friend
The predatory-publisher spam is coming from inside my head!!
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Further adventures in Spam
For us old farts the modern world is full of novelty and information-overload and insufficient bacon, and it is too much to grasp why a parasitical journal called "Oncotarget" should be working the...
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One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A...
The Codex Alimentarius. Is it: A Mayan folded book that survived the Spanish destruction, housed in the Vatican Library and believed to be a dynastic record until its recent reclassification as a...
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My new hobby:
Playing Scrabble using Captcha-words from Sci-Hub.Long-term goal is to arrange them into haiku.
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Mais où est Le Journal des Neiges d'Antan?
Dr Elisabeth Bik (whom God preserve) encountered the International Society of Microbiota, one spigot of the Edeas / Takayama Congress Factory. Hilarity ensued.But I should explain [for values of...
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You stop when you're broke In vitro, in vivo
I am not making up the name, nor even stealing it from a P. G. Wodehouse novel... Ignatius Massop is in fact the handle of a computer retailer in Rheinberg, who has diversified into Alternative...
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When Great Gatsby cosplay goes terribly wrong
Some magnificent bastard is scamming wannabee start-up entrepreneurs, selling $3500 and $6500 tix to Exclusive Society Soirées where they can network with Venture Capitalists and Investor Angels,...
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Non Angeli, sed Angli
By way of an update to the previous post, I have made the acquaintance of Bryan Emerson -- ecological-impact-minimising money manager -- and perforce I must share it with you, for he appears to have...
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Bring Me the Head of Stuart Little
Sam Peckinpah's attempt to make family movies about cute anthropomorphic rodents was not a huge success. Image stolen from a PubPeer thread.
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Make your armpit a charmpit oxter a roxstar
I for one am delighted to see this fine old Glasweegee word, long in desuetude except among hardcore Scrabble habitués, making a comeback by way of oncology papermills.
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My new hobby:
Collecting photographs of Lizard-fish swallowing other fish.Go home, underwater photographers, you are drunk and obsessive. Derp Frog just can't be arsed.
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Ineluctably
Get out of my head, Chinese oncology paper-mill dudes!That is a worship word! Smut worship! You will not speak it!
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Alacrity
An aromatic herb from the Apiaceae family, similar to coriander and celerity. Few culinary uses other than in flavouring Akvavit, and in Extreme Norwegian Cuisine. Sometimes mistaken for acrimony, a...
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Metäl Hõrns: DÕIN IT RÕNG
He could be saying "ILY" in American Sign, but there are probably not many ASL-signing Deaf in the audience.UPDATE: This other chorister is clearer on the concept.
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And lo, a mighty hilarity ensued across the face of the land, and in heaven...
An asylum of antivax loons* is protesting a mockademic scamference. Your argument is invalid.At the protest of the global vaccine summit which has taken place this past weekend in Houston, Texas....
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