I‘ll be doing a talk about writing about improbable things, on Tuesday, October 28, at the Barker Center (12 Quincy Street, Harvard University), starting at 7:30 pm. It’s free, and open to the public. This event is part of the Harvard Writers at Work series. Despite what the series name implies, I will not sit on a stage and type […]
A quick intro to the Ig Nobel Prizes, on Belgian TV
Here’s a twelve-minute introduction to the Ig Nobel Prizes, in case you need one, on Belgian TV. Lieven Scheire is your guide. The program is Cafe Corsari:
The Testicular Fortitude of Urbexers
Following our recent Improbable article on the male bias in military bunker enthusiasts, may we recommend a follow-up paper by Carrie Mott at the Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, and Susan M. Roberts University of Kentucky; Department of Geography, and University of Turku, Finland; which examines (amongst much more) the ‘testicular fortitude’ of ‘urbexers’. “Urbex […]
Wind, animated graphically
Robert Löbel, of HAW Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences, created this force-filled, masterful animation of wind. It’s his graduation film: [vimeo]80883637[/vimeo] (Thanks to John Bohannon for bringing it to our attention.)