I learn via the igNobel’s Marc Abrahams* of a singular achievement from the great minds at the Max Plankton Institute in the Netherlands. This result, according to the researchers, “sheds a whole new perspective on the origin of live music.”
Watch:
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Over to the snarling mass. Y’all know who you are.
*also the man behind the Annals of Improbable Research.
PurpleGirl
Back in college I liked reading the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Corner Stone
Jason Dufner is absolutely spent. Nothing left in the tank.
That’s what getting married will do to you.
jeffreyw
I gotta beef.
Kristine
Shouldn’t that be “Max Planck Institute”? Or did I miss the joke?
Kristine
@jeffreyw: I had pot roast. It was good, but yours looks prettier.
Yutsano
@jeffreyw: I so love the Maillard reaction. It makes cow pretty and tasty. Tomorrow we’re having prime rib. Tonight is lasagna. Yum.
Lojasmo
Have been meaning to get a haircut for two weeks, but have been too busy. Got to the barbershop two minutes after they closed today. Promptly came home and shaved my head.
inventor
@Kristine:
I think you missed the joke. The Max Plank Institute is concerned with sub-atomic physics while the Max Plankton institute seems more interested in the musical proclivities of tiny aquatic fauna.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
this is impressive, in a pre-jellyfish morton kind of way.
Amir Khalid
@jeffreyw:
My, that does look pretty. Alas, my health now precludes my eating big chunks of meat except as a (very) rare treat.
WereBear
@Marcellus Shale, Public Dick: Obviously an influence on Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Villago Delenda Est
@WereBear:
“What’s the matter, McFly? Chicken?”
David Koch
…is it any wonder I’m not the President?
Roger Moore
@Marcellus Shale, Public Dick:
I’m a much bigger fan of “Flight of the Bumblebee”, myself.
Raven
Just saw Kid with a Bike.
jeffreyw
@Amir Khalid: Have a fresh slice, then. We aim to please.
Yutsano
@jeffreyw: Ahh if we only had matter-energy transport. I could be noshing on that as we type!
gaz
Apparently John Stossel’s mustache figured he’d attack the poor again on “Fox and Fiends” with that same line – 99.6% of the poors have refrigerators.
Again with this shit? Seriously?
In this country, a refrigerator is NOT a luxury item. In fact, unlike John Stossel’s mustache, a poor person is likely to NEED a refrigerator because they CANNOT EAT OUT ALL THE TIME.
What does he suggest as an alternative? Starvation? Oh wait…
And cue the response about “people in the 3rd world don’t need ’em” so we can get to the stratification of the poor, and ignorance of the fact that our country is simply not equipped for this type of living – our diets, our food delivery networks, EVERYTHING sort of requires one – here in the USA.
Jesus wept.
If there were any justice in the world, John Stossel would be homeless… In Michigan.
Roger Moore
@gaz:
Wait, so you’re suggesting that the US should not base its policies on the way they do things in the Third World? That sounds like dangerous commie pinko territory. Next you’ll be suggesting that we should only start wars when we have a good reason, that poor people deserve the same rights as rich ones, and other crazy talk.
gaz
@Roger Moore: Yep. I’m a radical. and a queer. and probably a commie. I’ll cut you.
My makeup bag
Larkspur
Okay, I am taking advantage of this Open Thread opportunity to share an incredibly cool obituary with y’all. It appeared today in the San Francisco Chronicle. At the link there’s an old photo of this remarkable woman. Somebody needs to make a movie of her life. I’m sorry she died; I wish she’d had more time. But I’m really glad I read about her.
I added a bit of punctuation, but that’s all. What a story.
Roger Moore
@gaz:
I dunno. I thought real radicals were supposed to bomb and shoot people, not cut them. If you’re not conspiring to overthrow the government in the name of some massive international conspiracy, what kind of radical are you?
gaz
@Roger Moore: I *am* an international conspiracy. ;)
alex
@Kristine:
That is the joke. Moreover, the Max Plank institutes are German, not Dutch.