The Japanese edition of Why Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans has just come out. "ISBN 4270000910" is the way the numerocentric prefer to call it. by whatever name, it is the second in the series of books about Ig Nobel Prize winners.
The Tring tiles add spice, and maybe a little sugar, to the question "What would Jesus do?" These adventure-packed ceramic cartoons depict scenes, unmentioned in the Bible, from Jesus’s boyhood. Apparently created in the 14th century, they once enlivened a wall of the parish church in the town of Tring. Several of the tiles now reside under glass, in case number eight of Room 42 of the British Museum….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian
Someone has created a rapid look at anatomy from the inside out.
(Thanks to Rebecca German for bringing this to our attention.)
Kees Moeliker wrote an extensive article — with beautiful photos — about the famous domino-murder-victim sparrow. It appears in the December 20, 2005 issue of NRC Handelsblad.
Someone has carefully crafted a collection of good quality cutesy, noisy little videos of turtles.
(Thanks to Leslie Procter for bringing this to our attention.)
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