It’s been said that “The use of music in organizational management is a rare occurrence.” Rare maybe, but not unknown. A notable exception was Thomas John Watson, Sr. who was long-time chairman and CEO of International Business Machines – more commonly known as IBM. Authors Amal El-Sawad and Marek Korczynski of Loughborough University, UK have […]
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For more emotional snacking, a patent for culinary theme songs
Innovation can be a matter of joining together things that the patent office — and maybe customers — will approve of. Corn chips, song, and the Internet are obvious influences on US patent 7942311, “Method for sequencing flavors with an auditory phrase,” granted May 17, 2011 to George Eapen of Frisco, Texas. Eapen assigned rights […]
Thai Dove Cooing Contests – an analysis
Some might say that despite their popularity, Thai dove-cooing contests, which have now been held for more than 30 years, have not received the academic attention they deserve. Either way, things changed with the 2005 (#9) edition of the journal MANUSYA:Journal of Humanities (a publication of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand) in which Professor Wanni […]
Physics of Wrecking Balls: The Viability of a Miley Cyrus Song
Another new basic physics investigation from the University of Leicester: “The Viability of Coming In Like a Wrecking Ball,” David McDonagh [pictured here], Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, vol. 3, March 2014. (Thanks to @IanVisits for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at the University of Leicester, reports: ” A pop song that made the […]