Mary Mulvihill did a five-minute talk about ‘The night Dublin dissected an elephant’. It (the night Dublin dissected an elephant — not Mulvihill’s talk!) was was a big, smelly moment in the history of science. Here’s video of her talk: Allen Mullin did the dissection, way back when, in 1681. He described it in a […]
Tag: Elephant
Tony and Dali and an elephant
Mechanical engineering, history, art, and semiotics all come together or fall apart in this automaton called “The Temptation of St. Anthony, After Salvadore Dali“:
Cause and Effect: Avenging Elephants
Fr. Sunil de Silva, of the organization America Needs Fatima, reports what is (to him) almost certainly a case of cause and effect: In July 2008 a severe persecution of Christians broke out in the Indian state of Orissa….The end result saw more than 500 Christians murdered, and thousands of others injured… Recently a strange […]
Horton Sees a Pluto
Meg Muckenhoupt wrote a poem about Pluto: Horton Sees a Pluto [AIR 15:5] On a hot night in August, while strolling in Prague, Horton the elephant peered through the fog. With his portable telescope tied on a string He looked at the heavens and spotted… a thing! So Horton stopped walking and stared at the spot. […]