Today’s Troll Comment of the Day is: L.E. Troll, “Comments on ‘Corpses, Lepers, and Menstruating Women‘”, Feminism & Psychology, vol. 5, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 468-472, doi:10.1177/0959353595054005.
Month: May 2011
Almost nothings
For many philosophers, the scholarly debate around holes began in earnest in 1970, with Lewis and Lewis’s now classic article ‘Holes’ (Australasian Journal of Philosophy 48: 206–212.) The authors presented their paper in a highly unusual format – that of an imaginary discussion between two philosophers, called Argle and Bargle, who are pondering the holes in […]
Jason Webley on the origin of bacteria
Jason Webley explains why and how he wrote the song “Bacteria” during the tech rehearsal for last year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. He and Amanda Palmer, who when conjoined form the supergroup Evelyn Evelyn, premiered the song as part of the 201o Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. This video was taken at Jason’s recent solo show […]
A boxing match, with fireworks
John Ptak is spotlighting some inventions of limited utility. Here’s the first, a boxing exhibition in London, in which the contestants wear asbestos suits with fireworks that explode during the (pardon the pun) match. It’s pictured in a 1937 issue of Popular Science magazine: BONUS: From a later decade: electronic rock-em sock-em robots