The editor of a journal of onomastics speaks to you — for approximately two minutes and thirty-four seconds—in this video: BONUS: Ernest Abel’s “A Note on the Names in Names“
Saturday: Improbable Research show @ Chicago AAAS
Join us for the annual big Ig Nobel Show at the AAAS Annual meeting, this Saturday night! Saturday, February 15, 2014, 8:00-10:00 pm. AAAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA — Fairmont Chicago Hotel, Moulin Rouge Ballroom. Marc Abrahams will give the latest Ig Nobel / Improbable news, and then you will meet: Prof. Kate Clancy will explain — and […]
Marginal image: nude bishop carrying his head
Here is another of the peculiar drawings that enliven the margins of a manuscript, made in or around the year 1350, of Jacques de Longuyon‘s poem “Les Voeux du Paon” (English translation: “Vows of the Peacock”).The Morgan Library owns a copy (Morgan Library MS G 24) and has put some of these images online. Here are a […]
Ball squeezing – Kick Butt™
Ethnomusicologist Dr. Verna Gillis (previously an assistant professor at Brooklyn College and Carnegie Mellon University, US), has just recently been granted a US design patent for her ‘Ball’. (Jan. 7th, 2014) More accurately named as the Kick Butt Ball™, which is described as “… a novel spin on a stress ball, with one side shaped […]