For those unsure about the sometimes-misunderstood difference between ‘Kitsch’ and ‘Camp’, Dr. Freya Jarman, who is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music at the University of Liverpool, UK, provides a concise definition : “Camp enjoys and glorifies its own awfulness where kitsch doesn‘t realise it.” Dr. Jarman researches how ‘camp’ works, musically. See, […]
Month: February 2015
The ten-percenters: The hot, hot men who pinch copper
For young and youngish men of a certain disposition (regarding copper), these are exciting times, as this medical report attests. The report is: “Electrical burn injuries secondary to copper theft,” J.A. Dunne, D. J. Wilks, D.P. Mather, and J.M. Rawlins, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, epub 2015. The authors, at St George’s Hospital, London, […]
Conceivabilism, inconceivabilism and someone with 200 arms and legs
Sometimes, philosophers like to construct highly exaggerated imaginary scenarios in order to test the validity of theories – conjuring up, for example, human bodies with a pair of spare eyes in their shoulders. Since there’s no very little limit on how exaggerated such propositions might be, some take on outlandish proportions. Such ideas can push […]
Mario Ettore Giardini joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)
Mario Ettore Giardini has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says: I am a biomedical engineer, and I design instruments for field medicine,to support healthcare in the remotest areas of the world. Hair has only little to do with my research, and this is why I need plenty of it. Mario Ettore Giardini, Ph.D, […]