Once a year Harvard celebrates the Ig Nobel Prizes, a ceremony in which goofy research is rewarded. My favorite this year was the Probability Prize, which went to the Scottish Agricultural College in Edinburgh. After 11,000 observations, Scots determined that the longer a cow has been lying down, the sooner she will get up.
In an unrelated matter, an exhibition of the art of Richard Diebenkorn has been up at the de Young in San Francisco (aka Frisco to the unpretentious pioneers who built the place). Diebenkorn lived in Healdsburg the last five years of his life. He died 20 years ago.
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