A press release announces a new internship. Evidently it's open only to men:

To Celebrate the Availability of the Fresh Collection, Old Spice Wants to Send Two Guys to Matterhorn and Fiji, for the Fresh Adventure Internship of a Lifetime

CINCINNATI, March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Old Spice (NYSE: PG) today announced the launch of the Fresh Collection, a line of antiperspirant/deodorants that gives guys the chance to smell like some of the freshest places on earth. Designed by the scent experts at Procter & Gamble, Fresh Collection combines the great protection guys have come to know and expect from Old Spice, with a blend of fresh fragrances that are subtle and not overpowering. Fresh Collection is inspired by four well-known lands from across the globe, each one containing scent notes familiar to that location:

Fiji: Smells...

Thomson Reuters' Science Watch has named Rudolf Jaenisch, a stem-cell scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as the world's "hottest" researcher, based on the number of citations to his work.

Congratulations, Professor Jaenisch. Congratulations, too, to the Reuters news agency, for so vividly describing the scientific publishing process in its article about the honor: 

"Scientists share their discoveries by writing studies called papers, which are published by journals. Other researchers read them, poke holes in them, try to replicate them and use them as the basis for their own studies.
Each time they do, they credit the original paper by citing it."

Are we clear? —Don Troop

Are economics students happier or less happy than other students in the social sciences?

A pair of German economists note that while scholars in their field have vigorously begun analyzing the economics of happiness, no one has studied the happiness of economists themselves. Not till now, anyhow. 

Justus Haucap, of Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, and Ulrich Heimeshoff, of the University of Bochum, surveyed 918 students of economics and other social sciences in 2005, then estimated how studying each of the different fields affected individual life satisfaction. They reported their results in a paper titled, "The Happiness of Economists: Estimating the Causal Effect of Studying Economics on Subjective Well-Being."

The news is good — for...

An "A student" takes a professor to task in an e-mail rant, rife with misspellings, for lacking the ability to recognize brilliance.

Is this really "the greatest student email ever written"? What's the most outrageous student e-mail message you've ever received?

Via AlterNet

If your son attends a college rife with guns and drugs, you shouldn't have to pay full freight. That seems to be the thinking behind one father's alleged attempt to blackmail the dean of students at Harcum College, a two-year institution in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

When the father, Vincent Guadini, himself an alumnus of Harcum, received a bill for $3,000 in unpaid dorm fees for his son Michael, he allegedly e-mailed the dean asking him to waive the fees in return for Mr. Guadini's silence about drugs and guns on the campus, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Fox News reports that county officials found the accusations about the college to be false. Mr. Guadini, a former police officer, now faces counts of extortion, attempted theft, and other...

As 2009 neared its end, writers and journalists began scrambling to name the decade. The New York Times weighed in, as did Slate, and The New Yorker, and probably several other publications that we subscribe to but never find time to read.

The American Historical Association asked its members for suggestions, and this week it listed the nominees and asked readers to vote on a...

A chemistry lecturer at Northwestern University plucks a feathered intruder from the classroom:

Via ChemistryBlog

From our in box, a press release from a tobacco-retailers group that assails a peer-reviewed health study and argues that, essentially, a smoking pipe is no smoking gun:

Premium Cigar Group Labels Columbia Study as Corrupt Misuse of Junk Science

Columbus, Georgia March 3, 2010 — Conclusions made by a new study of cigar and pipe smoking by researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center are not supported by the study’s findings, says the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, a not-for-profit group of premium cigar retailers and manufacturers.  

The study, published last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was funded primarily by grants from the National Heart,...

Tens of millions of disabled people in developing countries who need wheelchairs don’t have them, and many of those with wheelchairs own models that aren’t versatile enough to use both indoors and on rugged terrain. Amos G. Winter’s new creation, the "leveraged freedom chair," might ease those problems. 

Mr. Winter, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, built...