Taxonomists may squabble and quibble (as a recent article called “Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?” makes clear), but most taxonomists are baffled by the works produced by the late Chonosuke Okamura, discoverer of the mini-creatures. Here is a set of photographic images from one of Okamura’s books. These, say Okamura, are faces of several minimen. Okamura […]
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Interview with the scientists who wrote the paper about Pokémon
Aggie TV interviewed Matan Shelomi, Andrew Richards and Ivana Li — three of the four co-authors of the paper “A Phylogeny and Evolutionary History of the Pokémon“, which was published in the Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 18, no 4, June/July 2012, pages 15-17: Their institution, The University of California, Davis, wrote about the paper […]
Doom Metal and Experiential Richness
Do you know your Doom Metal from your Goregrind, or your Blackened Death Metal from your Funeral Doom? If not, help is at hand in the form of a taxonomic ‘map’ which was developed by Jonathan Nicholas Piper as part of his PhD in Critical Studies/Experimental Practices at the University of California, San Diego. The […]
Who’s behind the Taxonomy of Barney
The Alcade wrote a short article, quite a while back, about the authors of the landmark study “The Taxonomy of Barney“. This image is from the original study: BONUS: Widipedia’s partial history of Barney the Dinosaur, which ignores the evidence presented by the “Taxonomy of Barney” authors as to whether Barney really is a dinosaur. […]