Tom Lehrer, master of many trades, sings here about sociology and mathematics, a mixture that is not always a solution: (HT Vaughn Tan)
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
The basic laws of human stupidity are ancient. The definitive essay on the subject is younger. Called The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, it was published in 1976 by an Italian economist. Professor Carlo M Cipolla [pictured here, below] taught at several universities in Italy, and for many years at the University of California, Berkeley. He also […]
BeeGees Music, Applied to CPR
Music [specifically, the music you can hear in the video below] doeth save the heart, perhaps, when applied to an otherwise silent life-saving technique, suggests this study: “‘Stayin’ Alive’: A Novel Mental Metronome to Maintain Compression Rates in Simulated Cardiac Arrests,” John W. Hafner, Jeremy L. Sturgell, David L. Matlock, Elizabeth G. Bockewitz, Lisa T. […]
Medical pop-up book vids, with silent organs!
These are pop-up medical books, or rather videos of some of those books being flipped-through. Whitney Trettien, Rachel Ingold, and Meg Brown of Duke University created the videos. The videos, being silent*, feature silent organs. (Thanks to Laughing Squid and @JenLucPiquant for bringing them to our attention.) *Well, not entirely silent. You can hear some unexciting […]