…For a decade, birds have been prime suspects in the spread of avian flu across the United States. But expansion of the disease did not match their migration patterns. New research led by Jason L. Rasgon, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, points to Culex tarsalis mosquitoes as the more likely culprits. […]

We give up. We’re fighting a losing battle here. And we strongly suspect the extra  “s” was a typo in the first place. —University President Ron Daniel [sic], quoted in a press release announcing the changing of the university’s name to John Hopkins, and dated 4.1.10. (That would be April Fools’  Day.) Parents and grandparents […]

15 Rank of Johns Hopkins University among “The 50 Most Stressful Colleges” as determined by The Daily Beast. After cheerily noting that Cornell University endured six student suicides in this academic year alone, the website applied some dubious methodology to the top 50 universities as listed by the annual U.S. News & World Report survey—that […]