If you are in Australia, you might plan to watch the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony live webcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corp web site. The ABC has a preview, with video of one of Oz’s many past winners, and a descriptive listing of several others. Here’s the ABC’s partial list (these are just in science categories) of […]
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Higher education: Orgasm info in Australian airspace
The Australian newspaper reports: A cheeky documentary about the female orgasm is raising eyebrows among Qantas passengers. The SBS program The Female Orgasm Explained is available for viewing by all international travellers and features excerpts from old porn flicks, graphics and sound effects that would make conservative commuters squirm. Originally shown on SBS, the French film aims to […]
Great Circus Adventures in Accounting (2009)
The turn of the century brought a new openness to, and maybe even nostalgia and yearning for, accounting adventure, symbolized by the publication of a jaunty paper. “Juggling the Books: The Use of Accounting Information in Circus in Australia,” Lorne Cummings and Mark Valentine St. Leon, Accounting History, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 2009, pp. 11–33 […]
The The Woman awarded indexing medal
Glenda Brown of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, who won the 2007 Ig Nobel Literature Prize for her study of the word “the” — and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order, writes: You may be interested to hear that The Indexing Companion (my book) won […]