Here he is at the opening of the blurb for Robert Graves's The White Goddess: "This is a prodigious, monstrous, stupefying, indescribable book: the outcome of vast reading and curious researches into strange territories of folk-lore, legend, religion and magic".
But just as it seemed that the evidence was clear, this year some curious new research from Israel was published, suggesting that far from helping to prevent Type 2 diabetes, the artificial sweeteners aspartame, saccharin and sucralose might contribute to it.
For a young person to stumble upon such a post in the course of naturally curious online research is unsettling, and it's not a far leap to expect they may come to see such arrangements as normal.
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"Some of our volunteers are curious about the research topics, but most are more interested in the prizes," Dr. Stanton said.
This fascinates me for two reasons: 1) How do people plunk down money to wear a shirt with a design on it that is completely unknown to them, at least without being curious enough to research it, and 2) Don't parents explain things to their kids anymore?
Trying to look ecologically trendy, officials last month presented a new sales slogan: "Save Them, Eat Them!" Lampooning this curious combination of research and cuisine in a program that kills about 600 whales a year, an Asahi Shimbun cartoon recently showed a sailor on a boat marked "Japanese Whaling" coming into a port with half a dozen dead whales trussed up on the foredeck.
It's an important issue for scientific trainees who, while being trained in academia often become curious about industrial research.
The scholarship typical of a work of evolution by example discussed above makes it that much easier for them to age gracefully; the curious reader can research the fate of the sources that form the basis for the work's scientific and historical claims.
