Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, who just a few months ago was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace prize, is very popular, reports the Belarusian Telegraph Agency on March 6, 2014: Lukashenko’s approval rating at 79% MINSK, 6 March (BelTA) – The recent poll conducted by the Information and Analysis Center (IAC) of the Belarus […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Some physics of trick roping
Trick roping and physics are revealed as being more or less the same thing (One of the revealers won an Ig Nobel Prize several years ago for revealing the reason spaghetti breaks into interesting pieces). James Morgan reports for BBC News: By studying trick roping as a science, a French physicist has taught himself to […]
He studies little kids’ hand smearing
George Peez [pictured here], Professor of Art Education at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, studies many things, including the way young children use their hands to smear things, a process known to some as “drawing”: “Phänomenologisch orientierte Fotoanalyse – ‘Schmieren‘ [Phenomenologically oriented photo analysis – “smearing”, the start of the children’s drawings], der weitgehend […]
The firemen who saved the top of a triceratops
A triceratops makes a rare appearance in the news, in this March 6, 2014 report by Sidney Bender in the Vineyard Gazette [in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts]: Triceratops Incineration? Not on Island Firemens’ Watch When Oak Bluffs firefighters responded to a fully involved fire on Barnes Road late Wednesday night, they knew that they had more […]