Makoto Fujiwara gives a lecture with tissue under his upper lip after his nose starts bleeding a few minutes before he's scheduled to begin. It was his "most colorful lecture" ever, he writes.

QD's Journal of Informal Studies
Ursula Bassler undertakes an investigation into the reality behind the German public's belief that all scientists wear checkered shirts. While she does find seven checkered shirts among her sample (35 male colleagues at a small conference), she concludes that "the majority of physicists do not wear checkered shirts. From quick glances around me on other occasions it looks like the 20% rate is rather constant."

Tommaso Dorigo calculates the amount of memory in his brain allotted for storing numbers, such as phone numbers, personal identification codes, and mathematical constants (including at least nine digits of pi). He is shocked by the result. "That number is so tiny that I am staring at it in disbelief. Why, I do work with numbers day in and day out!" he writes. "It's such a shame I am considering to avoid posting this."