Do you associate the city of Parma (Italy) with scent of violets, or Bufallo (US) with the aroma of Cheerios™, or the city of York (UK) with the smell of horse hair & hoof oil? According to a new paper in the journal marketing theory some people do, and this has helped to inspire marketing […]
Month: April 2016
Lizards That Fell to Earth [podcast 60]
Lizards — lizards that fall from the sky, more or less — find their way into this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams —with dramatic readings by Daniel Rosenberg — tells about: Lizards that fall from above (1) — “Arboreal Sprint Failure: Lizardfall in a California Oak Woodland,” William H. Schlesinger, Johannes […]
If you eat aphids
If you eat aphids, you might enjoy attending the International Meeting on Things That Eat Aphids. It will be held, so the plan goes, in Freising, Germany, from Monday 29th August to Friday 2nd September, 2016. (Thanks to Bob O’Hara for bringing this to our attention.)
Dice under gravity
These dice, the work of Suzy Leleviere, are visibly under the influence of gravity. They appear to be firmly seated on the surface of a table: