Last September, something strange landed near the rural Peruvian village of Carancas. Two months later, so did Peter Schultz.

There are 56 insect parts in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For every 10 grams of Lonestar beer, there is an average of more than 2,500 soft-bodied insects floating in the bottle.

When J. K. Rowling scribbled down the first pages of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” she never could have imagined the impact of her work. No one could have predicted that these seven supposedly “children’s” novels would one day be taught at an Ivy League school: Yale University.

According to Matt, Alpha Epsilon Pi rented Bessie the cow (cow’s name changed to protect anonymity) to amble around in a small pen on their lawn where the ground had been spray painted into twelve-inch squares. Whoever bought the $5 square on which the cow went number two would win $500; the losers, incidentally, were the people on whose squares nobody went to the bathroom.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Sarah Marshall, a Texas Christian University senior advertising/public relations major, was eating dinner with her boyfriend about three weeks ago when a friend came up and asked if they were OK.

Jokes about weed science are not acceptable at customs. That is what Carol Mallory-Smith, an associate department head at Oregon State University’s department of crop and soil science, has learned during her travels.