Atlant Bieri made this video about his experience on the day he and his team were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2026 Ig Nobel Soil Science Prize was awarded to Franz Bender, Marcel van der Heijden, Atlant Bieri, and Pia Viviani, for burying 1000 identical pairs of underpants in more than 25 countries, and […]
Have you ever considered how “soil themes” have been represented in popular song? If so, a new paper in the journal Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (Volume 63, 2017 – Issue 5) may be of interest. See: ‘Songs for our soils. How soil themes have been represented in popular song‘ The authors cite songs such […]
News (in the form of a published study) about straw checkerboard paving robots: “Dynamics analysis on transverse cutting mechanism of straw checkerboard paving robot,” Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions, Yu Ye, ShuFa Sun and JinHao Liu, 4(5), 2012, pp. 0439~0445. (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) Straw checkerboard paving […]