The Association of Dead People figures heavily in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. LISTEN on Play.it or iTunes (or DOWNLOAD it, and listen later). SUBSCRIBE on Play.it or iTunes, to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams tells about: The Knight of the Living Dead. (The Association of Dead People / Lal Bihari / court document / a parade of the dead / CORRECTION: in the podcast, we mis-identify the category of […]
Male-Body-Part-Metaphors-driven Organizational Change
If, from a critical and/or strategic management perspective, you’ve examined the metaphorical resources provided by specific parts of the male body for thinking [about] masculinity in social and organizational contexts, then, like many others, you may well have concentrated on the phallus. Now, a new paper in the journal Human Relations (March 5, 2015) points […]
Cybersecurity and the Artificial Pancreas
“Cybersecurity and the Artificial Pancreas ” appears to be the subject of this week’s Press Release of the Week. The press release, issued by the Mary-Ann-Liebert-centric entity that calls itself “Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers”, has been reprinted in several places as a news article. It begins: Cybersecurity and the Artificial Pancreas—What are the Risks? New […]
Physics of Low Pressure Popcorn Popping
There’s news, though a few years old, about low-pressure popcorn popping: “The Effects of Popping Popcorn Under Reduced Pressure,” Paul Quinn [pictured here] and Amanda Cooper, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Volume 53, Number 2 (poster at the 2008 APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana). The authors, at Kutztown University, report: “In our experiments, we […]