“So here’s the thing. Flight, taxes, death – they’re all connected to this event” explains the cheery video for the National Funeral Directors Association Leadership Conference 2021. The bad news is that the deadline to attend the event has now expired. The good news is that there’s still time to book for the 2022 event […]
Tag: Disney
Progress in grandma and grandpa detection
A joint US research Project from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Disney Research, Pittsburg, has made steps towards an automated digital image family member detection system. The new Bayesian photo-analysis methodology is able, for example, to perform ”identity clustering” and make attempts at identifying not only which individuals might be mothers, fathers, and […]
Ig-winning flamingo in a Disney movie
The plastic pink flamingo, Don Featherstone‘s Ig Nobel Prize-winning creation, is one of the stars of a new Disney movie. The character is named “Featherstone”. Don Featherstone was awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in art for his work. The new movie, called “Gnomeo and Juliet” is a retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story, […]
The Medical Danger of Kissing Toads
A 1999 medical report [see below] warned about children kissing frogs or toads. The Star newspaper says says of the new movie “The Princess and the Frog” that “More than 50 children have been taken to hospital in the US suffering from salmonella poisoning after the fairytale hit screens there in December.” The medical report […]