Saturday, June 18, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Asterix, neurosurgeons and the existence of Obelix

asterixPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-18]: A team of German neurosurgeons took the liberty to analyze the hundreds of head injuries roman legionnaires had to suffer at the hands of the ruthless gaul Asterix and even published a paper for that [source: web news, one can find the research here]. Many of us have grown up with these comics and we now that a scientific paper is published on them we are more “legitimate” in still reading them… Comics heroes do exist! Even scientists study them ! Γελαστούλης

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