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Guests were greeted with an accordion sextet in lab coats and bow ties as they filed into Sanders Theatre last night for the Seventeenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Awards. The awards recognize unusual scientific achievement, which this year included a self-refilling bowl that induces unknowing subjects to eat extra servings of soup without feeling any fuller, to a study on the side effects of sword swallowing. A slew of past Nobel and Ig Nobel Laureates attended, including many who have become regular fixtures at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Kees Moeliker said he has flown over from the Netherlands...
...Dixie Hummingbirds, the seminal, Grammy-winning gospel sextet that influenced James Brown and others, began in 1928 as the brainchild of 12-year-old South Carolina choirboy James Davis. As the group's guiding force for nearly 80 years, Davis enforced a strict behavior code (he once fined himself $20 for playing a racy Muddy Waters tune on a jukebox instead of a religious song) and oversaw such musical innovations as the use of electric guitar. Although the Birds' fresh harmonies and passionate gesticulating drew secular fans, Davis declined an offer to tour with Paul Simon after singing backup...
...back on Harvard’s slate. But there are still a number of easy league games that may serve more as a chance to pad statistics and test young players than real competition. The Crimson will play Union, Quinnipiac, and Division-I newbie RPI twice—a sextet of games that Harvard could realistically win by a combined 50 goals. And it is this lack of a challenge that bothers the Crimson. “I think our league is too big,” Stone says. “Honestly, it bugs me that...
RAVENS In the 17th century, a prophecy warned that if six ravens did not remain at the Tower of London at all times, a great tragedy would befall England. Tough days, then, for Baldrick, Branwen, Gwyllum, Hugine, Munin and Thor - the sextet normally roaming in the fortress grounds, now placed in aviaries. Still, the birds - and the nation - are safe for now. DUC CHICKEN France is Europe's biggest poultry-producing country - and its consumers are keen on organic and free-range produce. Or they were, before fears of avian flu cast a shadow. Duc, one of France...
...Broadway success of the superingratiating Spamalot proves it: in a generation, any humor can go from naughty to nostalgic. This 16-discathon is a refresher course in the Brit sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...