Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Sometimes a citation can sound like a metaphor: “Asymptotic study of the blowhard problem for the supersonic flow of a gas past sharp slender bodies,” A.M. Antonov, and Yu A. Belov, USSR Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, vol. 16, no. 6, 1976, pp. 227-232.
Yes, there are card games that make people LAUGH, and yes, there are card games that make people THINK. Now, new to the world, there is an official card game based on the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are all about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Ig Nobel: Improbable Research, The Game is the […]
David Kessler, stage manager of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, took a statistical wander through the archives of the 24/7 Lectures. These little lectures happen as part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. In each 24/7 Lecture, one of the world’s great thinkers explains their topic twice: First, a complete, technical description, in 24 seconds […]
In looking for info about the call-it-a-chatbot-if-you-wish — the computer program — named “Claude”, we came across a tribute to a man named Claude Chabot: PASSING OF CLAUDE CHABOT, FOUNDING PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION DES CHABOT The Association des Chabot would like to express its sincere and deepest condolences to the entire family of Mr. […]