Il Pollo di Marconi (English translation: “Marconi’s Chicken”) is a new book that collects and savors pranks pulled by scientists (and/or their ilk). Journalist Vito Tartamella did the collecting and savoring. The book, which includes Tartamella’s own celebrated discovery of the stealthily published scientific papers by Stronzo Bestiale (English translation: “Total Asshole”), is in Italian. […]
I amna fou’ sae muckle as tired – deid dune. It’s gey and hard wark coupin’ gless for gless Wi’ Cruivie and Gilsanquhar and the like, And I’m no’ juist as bauld as aince I wes. If you recognize the first stanza from Hugh MacDiarmid’s 1926 poem ‘A Drunk Man Looks At A Thistle’ you may also […]
There’s another new book about the Ig Nobel Prizes. This one’s by Yana Khlyustova, in Russian.
Congratulations to Anna Ikarashi and to Sogo Horei Publishing, for their new book Strange Science—40 Ig Nobel Prize Researches! The country of Japan, in addition to being one of the most prolific, efficient, and gleeful producers of Ig Nobel Prize winners, is also one of the most prolific, efficient, and gleeful producers of books, mangas, […]