Publications

This presentation focuses on a close reading of “Let’s eat cakes” (‘cake’ is pronounced as ‘go’ in Cantonese), a comic parody adapted from Disney’s Frozen theme song “Let it go”. Created by artist Siuhak in 2014, the story introduces diferent cakes and dim sums in Hong Kong. The panel backgrounds are film shots of the original Frozen singing scene, but the main character, Elsa, is substituted by a panda character, On On, who mocks Elsa by ...

In May 2010, food historians from accross the world gathered virtually (as a Google group) to share experiences of teaching food history. The forum that follows is an edited version of this discussion.

Exploration of post-1945 developments in Western cooking and eating, with as a guiding line the concepts of neophilia and neophobia. Attention is paid to technological changes, convenience foods, restaurant history, the diners' needs and dreams, and further internationalisation: all this results in a myriad of tastes.

C46 was a Commission of the Executive Committee of the IAU under Division XII (Union-Wide Activities), then after 2012 under Division C (Education, Outreach, and Heritage). It was the only commission dealing exclusively with astronomy education; a previous Commission 38 (Exchange of Astronomers), which allocated travel grants to astronomers who needed them, and a Working Group on the Worldwide Development of Astronomy, have been absorbed by ...

The Centre for Astronomy at James Cook University (JCU) in Australia has been offering totally internet-delivered Master of Astronomy degrees since 2003 and Doctor of Astronomy and Ph.D. degrees since 2004. In 2005 a new dimension was added with unique offerings in the history of astronomy at both Masters and Doctoral levels. With the aid of 1 full-time staff member and 10 adjunct staff, 4 students have now graduated with Ph.D. degrees, 1 ...

We have measured the speed of both pressure waves and shear waves as a function of depth between 80 and 500 m depth in South Pole ice with better than 1% precision. The measurements were made using the South Pole Acoustic Test Setup ({SPATS}), an array of transmitters and sensors deployed in the ice at South Pole Station in order to measure the acoustic properties relevant to acoustic detection of astrophysical neutrinos. The transmitters and ...

Commission 41 was created at the VIIth IAU General Assembly in Zürich in 1948. From an inauspicious start-Otto Neugebauer was appointed the first President in his absence, but proceeded to express his conviction that ``an international organization in the history of astronomy has no positive function. . .my only activity during my term of service consisted in iterated attempts to resign''-the Commission quickly assumed a key role in the ...

Newly found copies of Copernicus' principal work are described, the development of the concepts "sphaera" and "orbis coelestis" from ancient times via Copernicus to Kepler is investigated. The concept of harmonical cosmology of Kepler and A. Kircher is analyzed in a major paper. A rediscovered letter by Kepler is interpreted. Other papers deal with the university observatory of Bützow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), the observatories installed ...