Medical experts are eager to see whether 2021 Ig Nobel Prize winner Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, will cure his intractable hiccups with the digital-rectal-message treatment devised by 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Francis Fesmire. Bolsonaro’s ailment is reported in many news outlets. The Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant says, today: “Brazilian President Bolsonaro […]
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The semiotics of lamppost stickers in Birmingham (new study)
“This article set out to examine the role of stickers in urban semiotic landscapes by focusing on their spatial distribution, agency, and linguistic practices involved in their design and production, function and discursive distribution. The analysis of 1191 signs recorded on Digbeth, a street in central Birmingham, UK, has revealed that stickers form the predominant […]
Milk, manure, mixed message
The headline sends a mixed, if not stirring, message — “Put More Nitrogen into Milk, Not Manure” — in this May 28, 2010 alert from the USDA Agricultural Research Service. (Thanks to Dan Vergano for alerting the world to this alert.) Here’s a screen grab: