The spacer GIF gets some love, appreciation, and disdain in this new study: “The invention and dissemination of the spacer gif: implications for the future of access and use of web archives,” Trevor Owens and Grace Helen Thomas, International Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, pp. 71–84. (Thanks to Sarah Rambacher for […]
Optimising one’s arm-swing whilst walking – a cost/benefit analysis [new study]
“Humans tend to swing their arms when they walk, a curious behaviour since the arms play no obvious role in bipedal gait. It might be costly to use muscles to swing the arms, and it is unclear whether potential benefits elsewhere in the body would justify such costs.” If you’re a living thing, energy is […]
Ig Nobel ceremony TICKETS go on sale TODAY
Tickets for the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony go on sale today—Wednesday, July 10, 2019, at NOON (US eastern time)—exclusively from the Harvard Box Office.
A look back at the 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony
The 25th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, in the year 2015, was extra-memorable. Diane Kelly, reporting for Gizmodo, explained why: The 25th Ig Nobel Awards Were The Greatest Moment In The History of (Silly) Science For years, the Ig Nobel Awards have been famous for celebrating the most offbeat and ludicrous forms of scientific discovery. And last […]