“First popularized within Halo 2 multiplayer competitive matches, teabagging is a controversial practice where the player’s avatar repeatedly crouches over a defeated player’s ‘body’ in order to simulate rubbing his or her genitals over the avatar’s body” [our hyperlink] By way of a recent essay for the academic journal Games and Culture, the first (and […]
Month: December 2018
Whithering commentary about misconduct
Whither, oh why, do some researchers misconduct themselves professionally, and what is to be done about it? This study wants you to wonder about that: “Whither research integrity? Plagiarism, self-plagiarism and coercive citation in an age of research assessment,” Ben R. Martin, Research Policy, Volume 42, Issue 5, June 2013, Pages 1005-1014. The author laments: “This extended editorial asks […]
When were World Standards Day 2018?
This year, 2018, World Standards Day was celebrated on October 14. In Canada, World Standards Day was celebrated on October 4. In the USA, World Standards Day was celebrated on October 18. This staggered celebration is pretty much standard practice, and has been for many years. People were moved to create a video celebration of […]
Sad news: Roy Glauber, paper airplane sweeper and physicist of light, is gone
We have just heard the sad news that Roy Glauber died. Roy was our friend, and for more than 20 years he was a sweepingly charismatic part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony—he was “The Keeper of the Broom,” who almost every year would sweep paper airplanes from the stage during the Ig Nobel ceremony, […]