Ritalin is celebrated in a song by Borgeous and Maurice, with appropriate rhythms in the introduction and in the theme proper. The lyrics include: Nice children don’t talk back Nice children take Prozac (Thanks to Alice Bell for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Ritalin, once a carefully dispensed remedy for the few, long ago […]
Tag: Music
Ig Nobel readings Saturday in Cambridge
We are planning final details for Saturday’s big (free) event at the Cambridge Science Festival — public readings from studies that have won Ig Nobel Prizes, plus Ig Nobel opera songs performed by Neara Russell and Julia Lunetta. Spread the word, please! We’ll select the readings from all 19 years of Ig winners. There will […]
Greensleeves, technologically
Technology provides yet another way to play music:
Playing music not designed for piano
Rik Kuiper, curator of the Museum of Unintended Use, writes: [I] received this press release, recently issued by Leiden University. It started like this: “Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes‘s doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed.” […]