Hahahaha. I have to laugh. You do, too, after you listen up to S4theB! episode 47, all about the Ig Nobel Awards. Our very own Vanderbilt Professor Randolph Blake has garnered one of these cherished awards, one of ten annually awarded for "achievements that 'first make people laugh, and then make them think.'" (Source, Wikipedia)
The fantastic Melanie Moran at the Vanderbilt Register has graciously permitted me to rob her blind by sharing audio from her great online post about Dr. Blake's accomplishment, including sound files of scraping fingernails and a terrified chimpanzee (you'll just have to listen to understand!).
This show's music is our first use of the fanTAStic Magnatune website, which offers free use of its catalog for podcasters and very competitively priced purchases of a vast array of independent music in just as vast an array of genres. And I love their tagline: "We are not evil." Simply put, elegantly stated.
Songs today are from hammer dulcimer virtuoso Jamie Janover and Tennessee acoustic duo Heavy Mellow (LOL). And I lead out with one of my own tunes from my "Songs for Alaska" CD. Why? Because I CAN, silly!!!
Listen up here or click the Podcast Pickle player uptop!
Links:
Vanderbilt Register Ig Nobel article by Melanie Moran (and VUCast Audio)
Wikipedia Ig Nobel entry
Improbable Research
Worldstart.com
# posted by Scott Merrick @ 10/10/2006 06:52:00 AM
