Dr. Ignatius B. Nowitall;
Professor of Interesting Stuff;
Reformed Vegan, Ordained Pastafarian;
Logician, Magician, Seer;
The most famous scholar in Oz.
For my first time lecturing without a mask in two years, I feel like I should wear lipstick or pencil on a mustache or both. Definitely a breath mint. #facenaked
Kings James and then Charles issued the ‘Declaration of Sports’ proclaiming that it was lawful to play sports on Sundays. Of course, it was very controversial among the Puritans who came to New England where the NFL now seems to own Sundays.
A recent randomized controlled trial has shown that the provision of chocolate cookies had a significant positive effect on student course evaluations. Imagine if students had been given pie. https://t.co/0gn9X2bEki
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, children have represented less than 0.27% of all Covid-19 deaths. A recent 15-month study of children in Germany found that no healthy child between the ages 5 - 17 died of Covid during the study. I think that's quite good news.
Before listening to any psychics' predictions for 2022, it's important to ask them what they predicted for 2020. If they didn't see COVID-19 coming back in 2019, they're terrible psychics. I predict that some will pretend to have predicted it, but tweets are all time-stamped.
More evidence that predictive policing software is just "regular policing with confirmation bias built in." Don't tase me, bro. https://t.co/9E6Aam71dH
The time of maximum acolyte responsibility starts this weekend. This year it's more about flammable facemasks than eyebrow endangerment. Careful blowing out those candles everybody.
The 2021 top-ten Halloween candies list doesn't include banana-flavored Laffy Taffy for some reason: Peanut M&M’s, M&M’s, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Hershey’s Milk Chocolate, Twizzlers, Snickers candy bar, Kit Kat candy bar, Candy corn, Sour Patch Kids, Haribo Goldbears.
A new study seems to show that playing Tetris prevents the psychological effects of trauma. Playing a little Tetris on your phone after experiencing an inadvertent microagression could make for a simple coping mechanism. Not while you're supposed to be working, though.