Hopping Mad about Hula-Hooping

Dr —-[EDITOR’S NOTE: THE INVESTGATOR HAS ASKED US TO REMOVE HER NAME]—- sent us this note: Dear Sirs, I just have read about the latest Ignoble [sic] prize winners in physics and I read the original article of Ramesh Balasubramaniam and Michael Turvey, “Coordination Modes in the Multisegmental Dynamics of Hula Hooping,” Biological Cybernetics, vol. […]

Pek on “Serendipity”

We asked Pek Van Andel to review the world’s most provocative book about serendipity. Pek is an Ig Nobel Prize winner (for leading the team that took the first MRI images of a couple’s sexual organs while those organs were in use.) Here is his review. ————– Serendipity: the Prince?s Road This Begriffsgeschichte, this funny, […]

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