What depths has the anus song? This study takes a look: ” ‘Everybody, Let’s Tighten the Anus’: Exploring the Social and Cultural Meaning of a Korean Folksong,” Joonseong Lee [pictured here], Journal of Media and Religion, vol. 11, no. 4, 2012, pp. 216-230. The author, at California State University San Marcos, explains: “The immanent approach to the […]
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Improbable visit to No Such Thing as a Fish
The QI elves (the researchers who gather and lovingly prepare the guts of the QI television program) kindly invited me to join in on their podcast, which is called “No Such Thing as a Fish”. The official description: Episode 6: This week in the QI Office Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm), James Harkin (@eggshaped), Anna Ptaszynski […]
Steve Colgan’s insider’s peek at the Ig Nobel London events
Steve Colgan, one of the stars of the Ig Nobel UK Tour events in London and Teddington, prepared his insider’s look at both events and at some of the preparatory meetings. Full details, with lots of good photos are in his blog. Here are a few bits of it: The other reason for me visiting […]
Ig Nobel Prizes on QI (with Stephen Fry & testicles)
The QI [which stands for “Quite Interesting] quiz program (hosted by Stephen Fry, broadcast on the BBC), featured the Ig Nobel Prizes. This new QI episode [see below] also featured a visit from Chris McManus of University College London. Professor McManus was awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for his study called “Scrotal Asymmetry in Man and in Ancient Sculpture“, published […]