The Swedish public television network SVT filmed the Ig Nobel show at Boulevardteatern in Stockholm on March 25, 2015. Two months later, SVT broadcasted their video of that night. It is (at least for a while) available on SVT’s UR Play web site. (Many thanks to publishers Fri tanke förlag, to Boulevardteatern, and to dapper neuroscientist Gustav Nilsonne for helping arrange the event!) Here are […]
‘Why It’s So Hard to Understand Opera’
If you’ve ever asked yourself why it’s so hard to understand opera, then you could turn to the work of Bertram M. Schwarzschild for explanation(s). He wrote an article on the subject which featured in the journal New Zealand Acoustics, 17(3), pp.15- 20 . (2004), entitled: ‘Why It’s So Hard to Understand Opera‘ “A frustrated […]
Some people prefer orange skin
Having or making your skin be orange-colored can help make some persons more attractive than other persons, to certain persons, for mating purposes, suggests this study: “Fruit over sunbed: Carotenoid skin colouration is found more attractive than melanin colouration,” Carmen E. Lefevre and David I. Perrett [pictured here], Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. […]
Champagne-cork-RFID, a new way to amplify narcissism
Behold Mumms’ champagne-cork-RFID narcissism amplifier. This promotional video from, by, and for champagne-maker G.H. Mumm, shows how an RFID [radio frequency identification] chip, coupled to a corked champaign bottle, can be used to trigger a spotlight and attention to shine on the restaurant table at which the bottle of champaign is being opened, thus drawing attention to the persons who […]