| Topic: |
Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Therion Ware" |
| Date: |
24 Sep 2004 02:30:59 AM |
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OT: Attn Steve. |
From:
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opfeedback.jsp;jsessionid=CFAPBNBLIAPK?id=ns246699
A COLLEAGUE of Feedback named Stephen is delighted to learn that he
has now published a paper with Stephen Hawking, as well as Nobel
laureates Steven Weinberg and Stephen Chu. "The Morphology of Steve"
by Eugenie Scott, Nicholas Matzke, Glenn Branch and several hundred
assorted Steve-oids was published in the August issue of the Annals of
Improbable Research, and reports the first results of an "experimental
steveometry apparatus" - namely the Project Steve T-shirt.
This is serendipitous science, as these shirts were designed for
another purpose. Project Steve aims to parody lists of scientists who
support creationism, instead listing Steves with science PhDs who
support the teaching of evolution
(www.ncseweb.org/article.asp?category=18). Sign up if you qualify and
they'll send you a T-shirt. For the Steves mentioned above, this has
also meant being granted co-authorship of the paper to which they have
contributed.
How have they contributed? The T-shirts come in four sizes, from M to
XXL. Along with the names and addresses of the Steves, this fact gave
the authors a unique data set, allowing them to make a cutting-edge
geographical analysis of Steve characteristics. They break the
population down into domestic Steves and "foreign, wild Steves", who
are subclassified as Brits, Aussies, "Canadians, eh?", Random little
countries, and Germans. Contrary to popular belief, the domestic US
Steve is not a particularly large subspecies, coming somewhere in the
middle of the size distribution.
Startlingly, the authors find no evidence that female Steves (the five
Stephanies) are smaller than males - one of them even ordered an XXL -
or that Steves are larger in colder climates, contrary to a previously
accepted biological rule. They do however show that insular Steves are
smaller than the continental breed, consistent with both island
biogeography and the lead authors' culinary prejudices. They suggest
that malnutrition may have produced relatively skinny Brits and
Aussies.
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