The remaining Ig Nobel tickets will go on sale this Thursday, September 9, at noon. We held these back (as per tradition) until after the school year started, to give returning students (and everyone else) a chance. They may be purchased in person at the Harvard Box Office, Holyoke Center Arcade, Harvard Square, or by […]
Homeopathic dental fun/games day
A good time will be had by all, one way or another, at the British Homeopathic Dental Association’s “Come and hear the PROOF of HOW Homeopathy works” shebang. (Thanks to Annabel Bentley for bringing this to our attention.) Behold their enticing promotional graphic:
Gaiman, Nakagaki, Davey @ Ig Nobel
Neil Gaiman, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, and Mary Ellen Davey will give the 24/7 Lectures at this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The 24/7 Lectures are a featured part of the evening. Each 24/7 lecturer will explain his or her subject twice: First, a complete technical description in TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECONDS*, and then a clear summary that anyone […]
Dead cat bounce: stock metaphors
In struggling to make sense of the stock market, people reach and stretch for metaphors. Sometimes they even contort, dislocate, and mangle. In 1995, Geoff P Smith of the University of Hong Kong made a grand unified effort to gather and classify those metaphors. Smith congealed the metaphors and his thoughts into a monograph called […]