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...safety and convenience” of people getting tattoos. However, this project was slightly outside Anderson’s usual research interests, who described the ink research as a sort of hobby for him. “The tattoo thing is kind of a sideshow,” he said. “What we really do [at the Wellman Center] is work on cancer, disease, and immune systems,” he explained. “I’m not a professor of tattoo-ology, I’m a professor of dermatology...
...field to find out. In her fascinating new history, Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Penguin; 370 pages), Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer prizewinning science reporter, tells the story of their decades-long effort to establish whether supernatural forces were more than sideshow illusions. They never came to firm conclusions, but their struggle to connect the dots makes for a captivating and even poignant tale...
...Garfield, 31, a world-class juggler himself, founded a rival organization called the World Juggling Federation (WJF), dedicated to promoting juggling as a sport, not a sideshow. There are no clowns in the WJF. In WJF events, contestants are judged on the difficulty of their routines and the technical skill with which they execute them, and nothing else. The object is not to entertain but to win. "I wanted to see people competing like athletes," Garfield says. "Kind of like an X Games for juggling...
...duped, you can be certain. Lots of people watching in America and around the world know this is a show trial. The families of victims know it. They told me, "We want the real people behind this. We're not going to be fooled or satisfied by this sideshow." They know this thing is heading towards a pre-determined outcome, and for political reasons. In fact, you know what happened to me recently? The son and grandson of the two people who were executed for spying for the Russians - the Rosenbergs - came up to me, gave me a book about...
Though playing for Harvard in that atmosphere afforded me some of my fondest memories as an athlete, I think I could get used to being a sideshow for Conrad the Crawdad...