The long history of experiments in communication between humans and whales continues: Athis Mariachi band plays music for a beluga whale: (Thanks to investigator Herman Kranz for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: communications
Ig-Nobel-winning spam pioneer indicted again
Sanford Wallace, who proudly and perhaps correctly claims credit for the early growth spurt of computer spam, is having yet another adventure with the legal system. Wallace likes to be called “Spamford”. He was awarded the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize in the field of communications. The Ig Nobel citation read “neither rain nor sleet nor dark […]
What’s worth looking at (science, etc.)
There is a metaphor here, in this short (0:01:33) video, about how people decide what’s worth looking at: The filmmaker is named Malik. (HT @almuraisy)
What to do if your folks win an Ig?
How should a large institutions react when its people win a significant prize? The University of Chicago Medical Center pondered that question again, but differently, in October 2009. Here’s the preface to an essay they published: Foundational Research: Our (Ig) Nobel Prize In all the hubbub over the Nobel Prizes this week, we don’t want […]