Yes, there are card games that make people LAUGH, and yes, there are card games that make people THINK. Now, new to the world, there is an official card game based on the Ig Nobel Prizes, which are all about research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK. Ig Nobel: Improbable Research, The Game is the […]
Baseball cards – they’re collectible, and they can be worth something – and it’s been said (by some) that they’re “… a better investment than the stock market.” But is such a statement sound financial advice from dependable experts or misleading tittle-tattle from those with a vested interest (or neither) ? Perhaps what’s needed is […]
Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett FBA D.Litt., is Wykeham Professor of Logic Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and he likes playing cards. So much so that he co-founded the International Playing-Card Society, which is currently asking scholars (and other interested parties) to help with Unsolved Problems in Playing-Card Research. Problems such as: ● What […]
This month’s Anthropology Essay Assignment for Classrooms is to write a 50-word essay summarizing the anthropological and psychological import of this Associated Press report. It describes a situation in the city of Concord, New Hampshire. Here are sentences from the beginning, middle, and end of that report: The mummified body of a baby, kept by […]