“Danes identify Aalborg bishop’s 300-year-old poo” is the BBC News headline. The report begins: A lump of faeces stored in the back of a Danish museum has been traced back to a bishop who lived in the city of Aalborg at the end of the 17th Century. Researchers discovered the lump in a broken bottle. […]
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The Three Dimensions of Fresh Air
The Journal of Material Culture is “concerned with the relationship between artefacts and social relations irrespective of time and place”. And, as part of this remit, the June 2013 issue of features one of the few academic studies of ‘Fresh Air’. ‘The air from outside: Getting to know the world through air practices’. “The article […]
De-apostrophication in Britain
Comes the news, reported by the BBC, that : Apostrophe ban on Devon council’s new street names The apostrophe is being banned from street names in parts of Devon to “avoid potential confusion”. Mid Devon District Council said its new streets had not contained apostrophes for many years, but the policy was now being made […]
Psychology: Importance of a pipe
Today’s Psychology Perception Question: Look at this video of a man describing several activities. In the video [as in the still image here], the man holds a pipe in on hand. The question: Can you tell whether the man’s pipe is lit or not? [UNRELATED NOTE: You will see that, in the video, the man […]