One Ig Nobel Prize winner (Chris McManus, biology prize 2002, for his study “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and Ancient Sculpture“) reviewed a new book written by another Ig Nobel Prize winner (Daniel Lieberman, physics prize 2009, for analytically determining why pregnant women don’t tip over), in the February 17, 2011 issue of The Times Higher […]
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UP and DOWN, KIND OF and SORT OF
Google’s new tool, the books ngram viewer, lets you track the relative occurrence of different words in lotsa books over a long period of time. We used it to gain insight (or whatever) into two phenomena: UP and DOWN had their ups and downs over time. Note that they seemed to go up and down […]
Do ethicists steal more books (and stuff)?
“One might suppose that ethicists would behave with particular moral scruple,” begins the little monograph, looking you straight in the eye while snorting and grinning, textily. The two co-authors, philosophy professors who specialise in ethics, thus embark on what they call a “preliminary investigation” of their fellow ethics experts. Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of […]
Lowering into the books
Bookride describes a passage from a 2009 book Books Do Furnish a Room, by Leslie Geddes Brown: There is a great shot of designer Sallie Trout who built shelves in an inaccessible stairwell which she reaches by a bosun’s chair fastened to a chain hoist hanging from the ceiling above.