Norman Lebrecht, writing in the Slipped Disk blog, debunks a piano, sort of: Leonardo’s instrument? No, it’s a reproduction of an obscure German contraption There has been much press hooh-hah about a bowed keyboard instrument imagined by Leonardo da Vinci and built by an enterprising Pole. But does it pass the acid test of musicology? Apparently not. […]
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Wansinks big on the last supper
Brian Wansink (who won an Ig Nobel Prize in 2007 for his experiment with a bottomless soup bowl) has a new study. The Los Angeles Times reports: In a bid to uncover the roots of super-sized American fare, a pair of sibling scholars has turned to an unusual source: 52 artists’ renderings of the New […]