On Saturday, July 1, 2023 the first-ever Improbable Dramatic Readings event in Poland will happen, as part of Bazyliszek, in Warsaw. Mikołaj Kowalewski will compere. BACKGROUND: What Is/Are Improbable Dramatic Readings? Here’s what happens at this kind of event. Luminaries (of various wattage) each do brief dramatic readings from seemingly absurd, genuine research studies and patents. […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: A sick experiment —The phrase “what goes up must come down” isn’t obviously relevant to the insides of a cat. The countervailing “what goes down must come up” is, when that cat has swallowed something of dubious […]
Roland Eberlein tells some of the history of how people tried and sometimes succeeded at supplying the wind for bigger and bigger pipe organs. His essay “Technique of the Organ, ” published by the Walcker Foundation for Organ Research, goes into detail about some of the largest improvements: “The sound of the medieval organ must […]
This week’s ambiguously-worded science headline: “Profitability and Cost Analysis for Contract Broiler Production in Turkey,”by Suleyman Karaman, Yavuz Taşcıoğlu, and Osman Doğan Bulut, Animals, vol. 13, no. 13, 2023. The authors are based at Akdeniz University and Iğdır University, Turkey.