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A visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new a
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Maldives
The Republic of Maldives has a little problem. They expect their island nation, which consists of 1,192 islets in the Indian Ocean, to disappear underwater if global climate change is not checked. Their president has brought the issue to internationa...
Eskimo snow
That old chestnut about Eskimos having 100 words for snow? Not true. Linguists have been trying to dispel this myth for decades and date it back to the introduction to The Handbook of North American Indians, published in 1911 by German American anthr...
World's heaviest insects
Quigley at your service this morning to settle some contentious claims about weighty insects in the weird news. Earlier this year, the giant weta was put forth as one of the heaviest insects in the world, weighing in at more than 70 grams. Today, an ...
Follow-ups
The follow-ups are coming fast and furious! If readers find them tedious, do let me know.... Hazards of hail Immediately after posting this entry, I checked the weird news and learned that 14 more Chinese were killed on Sunday in a hailstorm. Since t...
Hazards of hail
I can't remember what prompted me, but I had decided to do a post about hail before I heard about the freak hailstorm in New Jersey yesterday! I was curious to know what the largest hailstone measured and whether people have been killed by hail. I ha...
