– is described in the Scottish Medical Journal (SMJ), August 2011 vol. 56 no. 3, pp. 164-166 (by Doctor I. B. McIntosh.) “A highly contagious behavioural affliction is now endemic in highland areas of Scotland. Pretravel advice ought to include a health warning to sport-lovers venturing north into wild, highlands of Gaeldom. It particularly affects […]
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Improper execution of the Scottish hammer throw
This video purports to show one method for improperly throwing a Scottish hammer: OTHER RECENT ITEMS ABOUT HAMMER-THROWING (not necessarily Scottish): A hammer thrower’s take on the Ig Nobel Prize-winning research Irrational Torque Technique of Hammer Throwers Proposed Economics of Irrational Hammer-Throwing
Kansas is flatter than a pancake, even in Dundee
The study “Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake“, described ever so briefly during the Ig Nobel show at the University of Dundee this past March (2011), seen in this video snippet:
Bad Poems Today in Edinburgh, at 2 pm
Join us today for a historic revelation. at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Our three-part event begins at 2:00 pm. Newly Discovered Poems by William Topaz McGonagall. This special event begins with a revelation of utterly no importance, but great historical interest: the first modern recital of two more nearly-lost poems by the bad poet William […]