Recent progress in Quidditch studies (part 1)

For those interested in following recent academic attention afforded to Quiddich may we recommend, Quidditch : Impacting and Benefiting Participants in a Non-Fictional Manner (in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues December 7, 2014) by professor Adam Cohen (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA) and professor Jon Welty Peachey  (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA). “This […]

Richard Feynman and the word “muggles”

The word “muggles”, so prominently used in the Harry Potter novels, may have danced through the speech of physicist Richard Feynman. Investigator David Kessler writes: In this youtube video [below], Feynman is discussing how scientists develop and test theories.  At 05:10 he says this: “I must also point out to you that you cannot prove a ‘vague’ […]