Here’s a video snippet from last year’s University of Dundee show on the Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. As the university describes it: The Dundee Ig Nobel Show in 2011 opened with a parade of animals from D’Arcy Thompson‘s personal collections. Also featuring a plate of peas (explained later), Prof. Sue Black and Principal […]
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Kansas is flatter than a pancake, even in Dundee
The study “Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake“, described ever so briefly during the Ig Nobel show at the University of Dundee this past March (2011), seen in this video snippet:
Improbable TV: Tay Bridge Disaster recited on a train on the bridge
Here’s a new episode of the Improbable Research TV series. It’s the 4th of many episodes featuring the bad poetry of William Topaz McGonagall. (For no good reason at all, we are releasing this 4th episode before we release the 3rd episode.) William Topaz McGonagall, who died in 1902, is widely regarded as the worst poet […]
Sunday: Tay Bridge poem reading on the Train
Join us on Sunday morning, March 20 for a historic group reading — on a train crossing the Tay Bridge, perhaps the first time this has ever been accomplished — of William Topaz McGonagall’s most famous bad poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, Here are the poem’s stirring opening lines: “Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry […]
