it is partly a joke site; the name is a reference, along the lines of the Ig Nobel, to the Proceedings of the Natural National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
apparently they do a mix of science for popular audiences (Honest And Reliable Data), and parody (Satirical Or Fake Data). i like the cut of their jib, and will happily return. thanks, boingboing.
aaaaghh! itās even worse that it looks to me like an unholy mashup of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as well as good olā Dick.
I did it myself, so I can confirm that itās just Palpatus and Cheney. The reaction the image tends to get says just so much about him.
If you look at presidents past that werenāt gray going in (W, Clinton, Obama), they all go gray during their term(s)ā¦ Iāve never considered that it is a ruse with hair dye, but rather an effect of having the stress of running our country for 8 years (in all of my examples)
I guy I once knew had a bit that went something like: āThe problem with Bush isnāt that heās evil, itās that heās evil and incompetent. When Nixon went out collecting orphansā kidneys in his two-story-high fire-engine-red flame-belching Nixonmobile, you knew heād be home with a grin and a bagful of kidneys before the killing rays of the sun cleared the horizon. Bush canāt even get that right.ā
Well, itās quite a coincidence that all those presidents had no gray at all when they first campaigned, but by the time they were in the office within a year or so suddenly had some distinctly gray hair. Obama, in fact, was accused of dying his hair gray during the latter part of his campaign, as a response to being up against the older McCain, because his hair so suddenly changed color. I suspect he simply stopped dying his hair.
This seems to be a fairly modern phenomenon - looking back, Carter had gray patches that got a bit lighter during his term and Reaganās hair got darker by the time he left office.
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