How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt? Asks Professor Milan M. Ćirković [pictured] of the Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia, in the Serbian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 166, page 55-59. His paper considers the possibilities of other universes where a soft ice cream, left to its own devices, might be generally more likely […]
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Ice music and ice cream music, and a former rodeo rider
Ice cream and ice can be used as, or as part of, musical instruments. Here are two instances. This patent concerns an invention in the field known (in a phrase auto-translated from the original Chinese into English) as “cartoon belt music ice cream”: “Cartoon music ice cream,” Chinese patent application 2476961 Y, filed May 16, […]
Understanding Stigma with a ‘Dogfood Sandwich’
Would you care for a dogfood sandwich? New research investigates this question with regard to ‘Stigma’. Previous investigators of ‘Stigma’ (e.g.Fallon et al., 1984; Rozin et al., 1985, 1986) have examined people’s reactions to cockroaches and ‘Hitler’s sweater’. “For example, dipping a sterilized cockroach into a glass of juice lowered the average rating of the […]
“Making ice-cream more nutritious with meat left-overs”
Today’s Press Release Headline of the Day is: Making ice-cream more nutritious with meat left-overs The European Research Media Center supplied the headline, which appears atop a press release full of delicious detail. At least one newspaper found the press release useful, writing an article about it and including a link back to the press […]