The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Come and visit us in Vevey: the birthplace of our company, where it all began. Walk in the footsteps of Henri Nestlé and other inventors who shaped the brand so dear to the hearts of Swiss people. Immerse yourself in a playful, interactive trail, discover the magic of cult products.
All pictures here: https://www.flubu.com/blog/pictures/the_nest_sep_2016/
Katy took this picture of Monkey riding on Reenpig this weekend. It’s just… perfect.
Despair, Dismay, Disorientation, and Delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way.
–Dominique “Mo” O’Brien, The Annihilation Score
Some conversations with Bean go along those lines.
And then there’s me:
As a follow-up to the previous post with the shortest peer-reviewed, published paper – this is the shortest published abstract!
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer’s block” is a humorous academic article by psychologist Dennis Upper about writer’s block. It contains no content outside title and journal formatting elements, including a humorous footnote. Published in 1974 in a peer reviewed journal, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, it is recognized as the shortest academic article ever and a classic example of humour in science. The article has led to at least three similarly humorous and peer-reviewed, published replication studies.
