The height of dogged dishonesty or honesty, when dogs urinate, gets analyzed in this new study: “Urine Marking in Male Domestic Dogs: Honest or Dishonest?” B. McGuire [pictured here], B. Olsen, K.E. Bemis, and D. Orantes, Journal of Zoology, epub 2018. The authors, at Cornell University, explain: Via two studies, we tested the hypothesis that […]
Recent progress in Wonder Woman studies
Since her first appearance in 1941, Wonder Woman © has received considerable attention from academia. Here are (but a few) recent(ish) contributions to the literature : • ‘A Different Kind of Power’?: identification, stardom and embodiments of the military in Wonder Woman • Wonder Woman, the Gutter, and Critical Genocide Studies • Loving Lassos: Wonder Woman, […]
A 400-mile bike ride to an Ig Nobel barbecue
Neil Gussman, who wrangles reporters at the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, bicycled 400 miles, from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, to come to an Ig Nobel organizers summer barbecue. Today he blogged about this social side of Ig Nobel organizing: Riding 400 Miles to a Picnic …When I arrived, most of the people at the picnic were […]
Booing/Music/Noise [research study]
“ ‘We Are Interrupted by Your Noise’: Heckling and the Symbolic Economy of Popular Music Stardom,” Mark Duffett, Popular Music and Society, vol. 32, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 37-57. The author explains: “Heckling has rarely been examined in popular music studies. The argument of this piece is that audience members heckle in an attempt […]