Luckily, it stopped raining right on time, on June 5th 2008 at 6.55 pm, but the first public Dead Duck Day memorial service did not attract the number of people expected. Still, fifteen duck-enthousiast gathered on the lawn next to the new wing of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam. I took the stuffed mallard […]
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Duck surpassed by seal
For thirteen years I have surprised, amused, inspired or shocked a wide audience with the story of my necro-duck. This may well be over soon. Why? Well, my classic improbable observation is surpassed. Nico de Bruyn, a zoologist at the Mammal Research Institute of the University Pretoria, witnessed together with Cheryl A. Tosh and Marthan […]
Life after a dead duck? (Tuesday night event)
There is an Improbable Event coming at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands): on Tuesday, April 1 (16.00-17.30h), Ig Nobel prize winner and European Bureau Chief of Improbable Research Kees Moeliker will give the 2008 ‘Lof der Zotheid-lecture’ titled ‘Is there life after a dead duck?’. In fluent Dutch, Moeliker will speak about ?Onwaarschijnlijk Onderzoek en […]