There exist a few people (some of whom call themselves scientists) who purport that we are, all of us, part of a simulation. If we, all of us, are part of a simulation, one possibility is that we, all of us, are placid plastic simulated ducks. If we, all of us, are placid plastic simulated […]
“Waiter, there’s plastic in my lettuce” isn’t a phrase you’d expect to hear very often. Nevertheless, several studies have now shown that plants can, and do, take-up microplastics [MPs] from the soil and incorporate them into stems, roots and leaves. Should we be worried – or happy? The latter is a possibility that should be […]
“This plastic pink flamingo, an enduring item of kitsch Americana, is as much a phenomenon as it is an everyday garden ornament,” writes Linda Laban, introducing the BBC’s history of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning plastic pink flamingo. The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize for art was awarded to Don Featherstone, for his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the […]
This artist announces a plan to preserve pizza slices, entombing each slice in a transparent small block of plastic. It is or is not art, depending on how one chooses to define art. The pizza is or is not, over the long span of time, pizza, depending on how one chooses to define pizza. The […]
