Here’s the program (downloadable!) from last year’s cannibalism conference at the University of Leeds. The lunch break was from 12:45-13:45.
Tag: cannibalism
Should researchers refrain from eating their research subjects? [study]
If you are a researcher studying, say, concrete bridge structures, or microprocessors, then you probably wouldn’t have to be overly concerned about potential criticism from peers regarding the possibility that you might eat your research subjects. But this is not the case for all academic fields. Take for example, ‘Animal Studies’. A 2018 paper published […]
Which Eats Its Own Faster, the Tortoise or the Hare?
Which is quicker to resort to cannibalism—tortoises or hares? Here’s one side of the story, a report by National Geographic. We must await evidence for the other side. (Thanks to Mark Benecke for bringing this to our attention.) Details about the eating are in a study published in BioOne: “Scavenging By Snowshoe Hares (Lepus americanus) […]
Does this count as cannibalism?
The headline in the Los Angeles Times reads “Teen baked her grandfather’s ashes into sugar cookies and brought them to school, police say.” Does this count as cannibalism? The question arises because one month ago the 2018 Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition was awarded to James Cole of the University of Brighton, for calculating that the […]
Cannibalism nutrition study, or translation snafu?
Lesson: When translating your study title into another language, check for cannibalism. Here’s an example: “Nutritional Characteristics of Lithuanian Olympic basketball team-players,” Rimantas Stukas [pictured here], Marius Baranauskas, Proceedings of the International Conference on Non-Communicable Diseases Management, Klaipėda, 2012, p. 25.
“Is Eating People Wrong?”
– asks Jonathan Harrison, former chair of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK, in his online essay “Is Eating People Wrong?” In which the professor points out that – “Animals that can be eaten are often better taken care of than men, whose artificially induced inedibility provides those responsible for them with no such […]