The All-Meat Diet was fictional when it was the centerpiece of “The Atkins Diet Opera” in 2004. Now someone is promoting the All-Meat Diet as a real diet for real people to follow. That someone is Mikhaila Peterson. Stephanie Lee reports, in Buzzfeed: Mikhaila Peterson, 26, is now making money off a new kind of […]
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The Big Bank Opera resumes in real life
The New York Times reports, on May 30, 2018: Big Banks to Get Reprieve from Volcker Rule Big banks are getting a big reprieve from a post-crisis rule aimed at curbing risky behavior on Wall Street. Federal bank regulators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping plan to soften the Volcker Rule, opening the door for banks […]
Dakota McCoy and the Blacker-Than-Black Bird Plumage
Biologist Dakota McCoy, (seen here performing with a tray of drinks in hand, in “The Incompetence Opera,” part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony) has a new study about color in birds. McCoy, together with colleagues Teresa Feo, Todd Alan Harvey, and Richard O. Prum, published “Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers,” […]
The Incompetence Opera (including the Dunning-Kruger song)
Here’s video of the premier performance of “The Incompetence Opera”: “The Incompetence Opera” is a musical encounter with the Peter Principle and the Dunning-Kruger Effect. And with the word “so.” This opera premiere was part of the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, September 14, 2017, at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University. The opera is composed of three […]