The turn of the century brought a new openness to, and maybe even nostalgia and yearning for, accounting adventure, symbolized by the publication of a jaunty paper. “Juggling the Books: The Use of Accounting Information in Circus in Australia,” Lorne Cummings and Mark Valentine St. Leon, Accounting History, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 2009, pp. 11–33 […]
Month: October 2009
School days (lethal): Pen was mightier than sword
Our Edinburgh desk chief Steve Farrar reports: “Saint Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death with metal nibs and now is, curiously, the patron saint of short-hand writers and parish clerks. Which makes him the ultimate pen pusher in more ways than one.” BACKGROUND INFO FOR NIB NEWBIES: this video shows a nib in non-homicidal […]
Ig Nobel winners in Genoa tonight!
WHEN: Tonight, Saturday, October 24, at 9:00 pm. WHAT: The Genoa Science Festival‘s Annual Ig Nobel special event featuring Marc Abrahams and Ig Nobel Prize winners Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk (surveyor of the tiny creatures with whom we all share our beds each night) and Dan Meyer (co-author of the medical study “Sword […]
Green Tea Diet!
(That’s “HMO-NO News,” Published in AIR 15:4.)