Here’s a video snippet from last year’s University of Dundee show on the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. As the university describes it: The Dundee Ig Nobel Show in 2011 opened with a parade of animals from D’Arcy Thompson‘s personal collections. Also featuring a plate of peas (explained later), Prof. Sue Black and Principal […]
Month: February 2012
Body parts, and then some
This curious music video, featuring a naked woman and then some,and then less, and then more, is more or less about body parts. So is the January/February issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, but in different ways. [vimeo]23959917[/vimeo] (via io9)
Dr. Redfield, her pink hair, arsenic life and all that
A mini-documentary about pink-haired Dr. Redfield and her take on the much-publicized claim that a form of life in a lake in California has DNA with a curious chemical composition: [HT @scicurious]
Food-related medical terms (food for thought)
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Gwinyai Masukume is joining our gang of regular bloggers. This is his first post at improbablecom.wpcomstaging.com. Please welcome him!] Besides food acting as source of energy for the brain during thinking, food (drinks, utensils, waiters, etc.) can literally be used for thought. Various situations encountered in medicine have been named after food […]