The sociology of Canadian donut shops plays out afresh, as described in a New York Post report headlined “Lady poops on restaurant floor, flings it at cashier.” That report includes action video. The 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for sociology was awarded to Steve Penfold, of York University in Toronto, for doing his PhD thesis on the sociology of Canadian donut […]
Tag: Canada
A Canadian Appreciation of the Canadian Ig Nobel Prize winners
Andrew Kidd, writing in The Varsity, give a happy nod to the many Canadian Ig Nobel Prize winners. His report begins: Ig Nobels recognize hilarity in science Seventeen Canadians have earned this ironic accolade With more than seven million scientists exploring the world around us, it seems inevitable that some would stray from important scientific […]
That moment when a Canadian TV News anchor discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes
This video shows the moment when Maralee Caruso, anchor of the six-o’clock news on CTV News in Winnipeg, discovered the Ig Nobel Prizes. Caruso reported on only one of the ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners: Thomas Thwaites, who shared this year’s biology prize, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move […]
The man who years later drove to see another 1000-pound cheese
Cheese research, by an intrepid, longtime student of cheese. (Thanks to Adam K. Olson for bringing this to our attention.) Alison Mah reports, for the Ottowa Citizen: Connecticut man drives seven hours to Ottawa to see one very large cheese Anthony LoFrisco had been waiting almost 70 years to find another 1,000-pound provolone. He just […]
Getting a LEGO up, on a dime
This video comes from a camera attached to a homebuilt device that rose to great heights. The Guardian describes it in a short paragraph (and also, elsewhere, in more detail): Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras […]
“Better chance… if an Inuit or a Mayan spits on it?”
A Canadian study, long overlooked, asks “Does a parasite have a better chance of survival if an Inuit or a Mayan spits on it?” Author Ed Shields sent us a copy accompanied by a note saying “Years ago, I chose its provocative title as an attempt to awaken folks to the potential immunochemical importance of salivary […]
Pup joint alert
Pup joints are in the news—an almost unheard of occurrence, because most people have never heard of pup joints. The Canadian International Trade Tribunal trumpets the word: CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL INITIATES AN INQUIRY PUP JOINTS FROM CHINA Ottawa, Ontario, September 13, 2011—The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today initiated a preliminary injury inquiry into a […]