I Definitely Would Have Cuddled With This At Night With The Rest Of My Stuffed Animals.

I definitely would have cuddled with this at night with the rest of my stuffed animals.

I've heard/seen some Telsa-coil-music, but so far I've seen nothing as impressive as this display. Rather than using a buzzing noise to punctuate the music, this musician/inventors Eric Goodchild and Steven Caton actually play the coils by "by modulating the number of sparks that emit from the coil each second," therefore "different tones can be produced by the coils."

The House of the Rising Sun" is an American folk song, though this particular rendition closely resembles the classic Animals cover.

Elegy to a few lost lines

My computer broke at work last week And ne'er before was poet rent: Despairing such prodigious loss Of verse that spanned a continent... ...or more. So many pages passed, So many trisyllabic turns of verse Were any even built to last? That I'll never know is worse...

Nothing puts me off of ice pops like wrinkly testicles

Old Frank, at the beach nearby Cambridge

Would show off his favorite appendage.

His Speedo's snug size 

Proves he's circumcised.

From people to fish, all took umbrage.

The winners of the IgNobel prizes were announced this week during a ceremony at Harvard University. This marked the 22nd year that the world’s most improbable research was celebrated in hilarious prize form. They are even presented by actual Nobel Prize winners!

Here are some of this year’s highlights:

Psychology: “Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller”

Peace Prize: Conversion of old Russian ammunition into diamonds

Neuroscience: Demonstrations of the limitations of fMRI analysis, AKA “Brainwaves in a Dead Salmon”

Literature: The U.S. Government General Accountability Office for producing their report calling for reports on the cost of reports.

Fluid Dynamics: For study of the unique spilly-sloshing that occurs when a cup of coffee is carried while walking.

Full list here. Scicurious is digging into the awards in detail on her blog.