The first-ever Ig Nobel Prize show in France happened this week. Here is a review by Media24 [machine-translated into English]. (Media24 also has podcast episode about this.) Soon after, the magazine Sciences et Avenir published a review. Later in the week, the wire service AFP interviewed some of the Ig people. For the first time […]
Several Ig Nobel Prize winners will gather in Paris, to discuss their work, with each other and with audiences. There will be special introductions by Eric Clement & Jean-Francois Joanny. Ig winner Roman Hossein Khonsari, who is doing much of the heavy lifting in organizing the affairs, gives this description: Paris is getting an Ig […]
At first glance, snow globes might seem trite or trivial objects, however : “[…] on closer reflection, they are revealed to be symbolic realms that provide clues to the desires, dreams, nightmares, and memories of the cultures that produce them.” – explains professor Lindsey Freeman, a sociologist who teaches, writes, and thinks about cities, memory, […]
The Jardin d’Acclimatation in Paris’s Bois du Boulogne, now a children’s amusement park, was founded in 1860 as one of Europe’s first major zoos. In 1877 the directors followed the lead of Carl Hagenbeck and started incorporating ethnological exhibits, of humans indigenous to the strange lands being opened up by imperialism. These attracted huge crowds as […]