Aesthetic surgeons in the business of facial wrinkle reduction have noted that if one weakens the glabella muscle with injections of AbobotulinumtoxinA without also weakening the frontalis muscle, unwanted side effects can occur. Known in the trade as ‘Spock,’ ‘Joker,’ or ‘Mephisto’ eyebrows. These side effects can be avoided by also injecting the fontalis muscle […]
Tag: spock
“It’s [wildcard] Jim, but not as we know it” — The Firm’s lyrics in academic paper titles
Which pop act has inspired the most titles for scholarly academic papers? The Beatles? The Velvet Underground? A Flock of Seagulls? A likely candidate is the 80’s UK band The Firm. Although it’s fair to say that they were never quite as famous as the pop ensembles mentioned above, nonetheless more than a dozen academic authors […]
Museum of Unintended Use
Rik Kuiper writes to introduce his splendid new museum: It is called the Museum of Unintended Use. In the Museum, I collect pictures and stories. Pictures and stories about objects, and the way people use them. Which is often not the way designers intended them to be used. Unintended Use is opening a bottle of […]