Daily Archives: 14 December 2012

A Woeful Sinner’s Fall: ballads of execution – ABC Radio National

This Saturday (the 15th of December) Una McIlvenna, a post-doctoral research fellow with the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, will appear on ABC Radio National program “Into The Music” discussing the phenomenon of the execution ballad—the printed pamphlet telling, in song, the story of the crime and of the condemned. For full details visit: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/intothemusic/a-woeful-sinner27s-fall/4415196

Into the Music 
4.05pm Saturday 15 December (repeated 9.05pm Monday 17 December 2012)
ABC Radio National
Find your local frequency here: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/frequency

For four weeks after broadcast, this program will also be available for streaming from www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic

Wormholes from Centuries-Old Art Prints Reveal the History of the “Worms”

By examining art printed from woodblocks spanning five centuries, Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified the species responsible for making the ever-present wormholes in European printed art since the Renaissance.

To read more about this discovery: http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2012-news/Hedges11-2012

Many thanks to Anne Scott for forwarding this fascinating news item.