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Category Archives: Satire
Memo: Kaschkow Medicine brand and name equity
From: “Dean Benjamin Franklin Lucre, MD” <goldenegg@kaschkow.com> Date: July 16, 2011 8:59:59 AM EDT To: “faculty@kaschkow.com”, “students@kaschkow.com” Subject: Kaschkow University Medical School brand and name equity: Use of the brand mark Friends, Subjects, Stakeholders: We are asking for your … Continue reading
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Human Theome Project sets sights on 2012
Joe and Mary Juke are models of piety. They attend services twice a week, are active in faith-based charity organizations, and their house brims tastefully with Christian iconography and literature. They describe themselves as “fundamentalists,” although Joe is quick to … Continue reading
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Scientists find gene for love of the sea
What did Thor Heyerdahl, Captain Ahab, and Odysseus have in common? They all may have shared a common variant of a gene for love of the sea. Researchers at Mystic University in Connecticut have identified a gene associated with seafaringness, … Continue reading