The author of the Murrmurrs blog discusses placenta-eating: The very day I first heard about placenta-eating, I mentioned it to a man and woman who joined us for beer-thirty, and scored a hit right away. It was the man who had eaten the placenta. It wasn’t his wife’s, either. It was at some sort of […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Good appreciation of the best appreciators of bad art
There’s a good new appreciation [in Portuguese], published in Folha de S.Paulo, of our collaborators at the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA). Translated into English, the headline is “Get to know the masterpieces of the Museum of Bad Art — Institution in the Boston area brings together two physical galleries and almost 800 works of dubious taste.” The […]
Proper credit for penguins: credit cards and poo
Here are two drawing of penguins. One drawing is part of an ad for a credit card offered by CIBC, with the slogan “Unleash your sense of adventure. Aventura. The Traveller’s Travel Card.™” The other drawing is from the Ig Nobel Prize-winning biology research study “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation,” published in the journal Polar Biology, […]
Bongo music and the dance of Slime Mold Andi
Behold the slime mold known (to its human friends) as “Andi.” Andi’s friends arranged for Andi’s slinky movements to be set to bongo music. This is explained, all too briefly, on Medium. [vimeo]275415501[/vimeo]