Attn. artists! Can you get a higher appraisal for yourself and your art by behaving more eccentrically? Say, by hacking off your own earlobe or “cavorting around in little more than a thong”? Such questions have been examined in a new study from Dr. Eric R. Igou (University of Limerick, Ireland) and Dr. Wijnand A […]
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More Scientists Going Gaga
By some reckoning, Lady Gaga invented herself so that scientists could parody her songs, which themselves are parodies. [Recall this and this, if you will.] Here’s the latest, from the Zheng lab. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize-winning fruit bat fellatio researcher Gareth Jones for bringing it to our attention)