Olga Gurova studies the cultural history of underwear in the Soviet Union. “When I am talking about Soviet underwear,” she says, “I mean the underwear that appeared after the 1917 revolution.” Dr Gurova is based at European University in St Petersburg. During the 2005-06 academic year she is visiting the US. Her lectures and writings […]
Month: February 2006
Further frog-sniffing find
ABC News reports (on February 22, 2006) a further discovery by the team that won the 2005 Ig Nobel Biology Prize: Smelly Frogs Don’t Get Insect Bites Researchers have found that some Australian frogs create their own insect repellent, resembling rotten meat and others roasted cashew nuts or thyme leaves. The research team, which includes […]
Flatness reminder
To honor National Pancake Day, a February 22, 2006 Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World report remindingly raises and answers the baseline question: How flat?: Research completed in 2003 proved what U.S. Interstate 70 drivers have suspected all along ? that Kansas is flatter than a pancake. Researchers from Southwest Texas State and Arizona State universities analyzed the […]
Dancer or octopus?
Dancer or octopus? That’s the question. Compare the two videos, and decide. Dancer. Octopus.