Quirky Fact Finder Prints

Funky Facts: Turtles.

'Washington has wooden teeth? -- how did you find that out?', 'It came out in conversation.'

"Dinosaurs are cool!"

Fear/Knowledge

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Funky Facts: Football.

Funky Facts: Monkeys.

Reverse Ageing Laboratory

Useless information desk at trivia buff convention

Reporter #6: television.

Rumors, lies and innuendo.

"I said to make a thousand CLONES."

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

Pavlov's Cat

Biologists often consult with microbiologists.

"Is that you talking or Wikipedia?"

'That's interesting -- I seem to have discovered the gene that makes people want to become geneticists.'

"I didn't find out quite what I wanted about the economics of democracy but I did find an interesting article about the mating habits of the Patagonian Fruit Bat."

Cloning Laboratory: 'I never thought I'd work here.'

No other lab did as cutting edge research using lab rats as test subjects as McWit Lab.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele: "There was a great display of ores and minerals...I could not write with a molybdenite pencil."

"Now don't expect any miracles. I'm only a para-scientist."

Two computers, smaller one labeled DATA, the larger one, HYPE

"Apparently, over two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water!"

'This cork idea of yours is great! How do you get it out?'

Sense of dread & foreboding Information blackout Illumination Facts known

"I'm suffering the unbearable loneliness of being right on the internet."

'Kleinzweck has a theory that the strong nuclear force is actually tiny rolls of duct tape.'

'I'm left brained and I needed some right brains.'

'You're so illogical. I can never win an argument with you.'

Early Scientific Fraud: Young Thomas Edison Tried to Pass off a Container Filled with Fireflies as an Incandescent Bulb.