Ig Nobel acceptance speech: Named cows

A highlight from the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony [AIR 15:6]: Acceptance speech for the prize for veterinary medicine [for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless] Peter Rowlinson: “I grew up on a dairy farm in Suffolk, 15 miles from Cambridge. I find myself geographically challenged being […]

Nutritive cardboard disks

Cardboard enthusiasts of a certain age may remember W. Schonherr’s somewhat influential 1958 study: “Nutritive Cardboard Disks Combined With Lattice Mesh Membrane Filter as Adjuvant in Hygienic Milk Supervision” [article in German], W. Schonherr, Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, vol. 171, no. 8, June 1958, pp. 616-23.

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