If you a reader, collector, participant, or are in any other way connected to, or interested in Celebrity Chefs’ Cookbooks you may have found yourself wondering whether the chefs pictured on the book covers predominantly tend to present their right cheek to the camera or their left cheek? In that case, thanks to Dr Annukka […]
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Dirty Books: Quantifying Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts Using a Densitometer
“The dirt ground into the margins of medieval manuscripts is one of their interpretable features, which can help us to understand the desires, fears, and reading habits of the past.” – explains researcher Dr Kathryn M. Rudy who is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Art History, of the University of St Andrews, Scotland. […]
The Ig Nobel book is now out in Traditional Chinese
And now, the traditional Chinese translation that you may have been waiting for: The Ig Nobel Prizes, by Marc Abrahams, ISBN 9789869189781.
Ig Nobel Prize-winning swearing research wins best science book prize
Black Sheep: The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad, a new book by Richard Stephens, is the British Psychological Society’s Book Award winner — in the category Popular Science. The BPS’s Book Awards have just been announced. In the year 2010, Richard Stephens and two colleagues were awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize, for confirming the widely held belief that swearing […]