If you’re going to be in Groningen, the Netherlands, on Saturday, June 13, come see and hear Ig Nobel Prize winner Kees Moeliker describe the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. One of the ducks may also appear, though will not talk. Time: 9:30 pm. Place: De Nacht van Kunst en Wetenschap, […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Escher design tattoos
Someone has been collecting photos of tattoos of drawings by M.C. Escher. Here are two of them. (Thanks to investigator Stanley Eigen for bringing this to our attention.)
Dead Duck Day 2009, a report
Friday, June 5th 2009, was the 14th annual Dead Duck Day. At 17.55h sharp (Rotterdam Time) a nice mix of duck enthusiasts, other bird lovers, curious people and readers of (my book) ‘De eendenman‘ (totaling five nationalities) gathered next to the glass pavilion of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam for the short open-air ceremony. […]
Gazprom: Ig Nobel winner reveals corporate anthem
Gazprom — whose executives, corporate directors, and auditors shared the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in economics with their peers at Enron and twenty-some-odd other companies for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world — has released a corporate anthem (or perhaps the anthem escaped). Click on the image below […]