In 1957, the BBC show Panorama broadcast a programme about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland. It showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree.
It was an April Fools’ Day joke.
Entries from October 2008
Spaghetti tree
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments · biology
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True Pie Chart
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · images, mathematics
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Geologic time
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · videos
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IgNobel 2008
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · research
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (2008)
* Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site. (Brazil)
* Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs [...]
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Chemistry in the Middle Ages
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · chemistry
What happens when the alchemist’s assistant is accused of witchcraft?
Looks like Monty Pyton!
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