Yoram Bauman explains (in an interview with Newsarama) how his article in the Annals of Improbable Research led, more or less, to his new book The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics: Eventually it got published in this humor journal called “The Annals of Improbable Research”. They present the Ignoble Prize every year. Then […]
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Memoirs of a stomach: written by himself
This week’s Book of the Week is Memoirs of a stomach: written by himself, that all who eat may read, by Sidney Whiting, published by W.E. Painter in London in 1853. A typical passage: My chief uses were these — To receive with becoming courtesy and politeness all nourishment that arrived in my parts, through […]
Theo Gray, in his element, in a book
From humble elements (nature’s own) did Theo Gray make a nifty book, just published, called Mad Science, chock full of experiments you should absolutely not do unless you are sure you can do them safely and have extremely good reason for your certainty, in which case you will wear good safety goggles and all other […]
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 […]