Today, which we proclaim to be Riddle of a Riddle Day, we celebrate scholarly works titled “Riddle of a Riddle”. Well, we celebrate one of them, as it may be the only one there is: “The Riddle of a Riddle,” Ivan Gaskell, Contemporary Aesthetics, March 8, 2008. The author, at Harvard University, writes: ABSTRACT: This paper examines […]
When the water flea met the volvox
This video shows “a waterflea (daphnia spec.) playing with a Volvox“, says the person who hoisted it onto YouTube: BONUS: A video showing what might be a water flea waltz (thanks to Marijn van der Waa for bringing it to our attention):
It is almost Dead Duck Day
Dead Duck Day — June 5th — is coming. The short, open-air ceremony next to the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam is open free to the public, including ducks. Please note the day in your diary. Dead Duck Day commemorates the sudden and dramatic death of the mallard duck that entered the scientific literature as […]
Odes to British Tea
Today, two odes to British Tea. First, the British Standards Organization’s official six-page standard for how to brew a cup of tea. It was honored with the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature. Second, Professor Elemental’s music video “Cup of Brown Joy”: