A tool often used to assess the quality of, or damage to, human bodies can also be used to assess the quality of, or damage to, an object that will be ingested into one of those human bodies. Details appear in this study: “Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Tool for Pork Pie Development,” Adam P. Gaunte, Robert […]
Tastes like chicken for millionaires (with a dinosaur twist)
Joe Staton’s classic article “Tastes Like Chicken” was the subject of a question on the September 25, 2013 edition of the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” TV program: The question posed to contestants on that program: “Since the animals are thought to be distant relatives, biology professor Joe Staton once wrote ‘chances are that […]
Introducing a concept: Hortiporn
What is Hortipornography? We can do no better than consult the word’s coiners – Dr. Paul Hewer, now Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Strathclyde University, Scotland, and Professor Douglas Brownlie, at the University of Stirling, Scotland, who originated the term in their paper ‘Constructing Hortiporn: On the Aesthetics of Stylized Exteriors’ (in: Advances in Consumer […]
It’s a bit livelier than other ceremonies… [video]
Someone in the audience took this 18-second-long video — a view from the balcony at the start of the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony: