In Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 14, 1973 Alyce Taylor Cheska organized and chaired a meeting of over thirty scholars who were identified as publishing research within the general rubric of play, and with this critical mass of interested scholars the Cultural Anthropology of Play Reprint Society was born… Thus does the The Association for the […]
Month: June 2004
How to Lay an Egg
How does a hen lay an egg? Read about it here. Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention.
Jargon Transfer
Abstruse communication has had no more generous friend in the past century than the newly late Howard J Brannd. Brannd gave new words to a field that was starved of vocabulary. It was he who brought technical jargon from the world of electric appliance repair to the field of mental health therapy…. So begins this […]
Trinkaus-Trinkaus Connection?
We received this inquiry from investigator Paul A. Kucklein: The March issue of mini-AIR features this citation: FUNDULUS FACTS “Ingression During Early Gastrulation of Fundulus,” J.P. Trinkaus, Developmental Biology, vol. 177, no. 1, July 10, 1996, pp. 356-70. The congruence of names between this researcher and the justly famous Ig Nobel Prize-winning researcher, John W. […]