At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, the Girls Next Door sing the 2006 Ig Nobel Opera, entitled "Inertia", a cappella.
At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, the Girls Next Door sing the 2006 Ig Nobel Opera, entitled "Inertia", a cappella.
At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute, UIUC, Joe Futrelle at the National Center for Subcomputing Applications reads his recent paper published in the Annals of Improbable Research.
At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, the Girls Next Door sing the 2006 Ig Nobel Opera, entitled "Inertia", a cappella.
At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute, Urbana, IL, the Girls Next Door sing the 2006 Ig Nobel Opera, entitled "Inertia", a cappella.
The shrine of Fushimi Inari is situated at the foot of Higashiyama (The Eastern Mountains) of Kyoto. The ancient shrine is actually a complex of smaller shrines scattered all over Higashiyama, with miles of walkways all over the place. The neat thing about Fushimi Inari is its ridiculous number of torii (holy gates), which symbolize offerings and donations made to the shrine.
At the Improbable Research talk at the Beckman Institute at UIUC, Marc Abrahams describes a mature way to keep time in an Improbable Research talk. A guy with a wristwatch will call a girl on her cellphone, and she will call out the time.
The annual festival of Sagano, a suburb of Kyoto, Japan. These worshippers are moving a mikoshi (portable Shinto shrine) down a street in Arashiyama, bringing traffic to a complete halt as they jiggle the shrine and make lots of fervent noise. Witness the poor bus stuck for almost half an hour as the entire procession made its way past it.
The annual festival of Sagano, a northwest suburb of Kyoto. This guy is holding a gold pole adorned with bells. His funny gait is aimed at trying to get the bells to ring as much as possible.
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