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wednesday ig nobel at stockholm university,...

Wednesday afternoon,the Ig Nobel EuroTour arrives at Stockholm University—featuring cookies,...

do beer mats make bad frisbees?

Beer mats do make nasty Frisbees,this study implies and explains: “Beer Mats Make nasty...

a psychoanalytic analysis of the superglue...

In general,we don’t tend to contemplate all that much approximately everyday things like, say, and...

calculating a fearful evolution of godzilla

A film monster,appearing in different forms in a series of movies, proves inspirational to two...

national income inequality predicts cultural...

A unique study marries,so to speak, economics and kissing. The study is: “National Income...

how to do the stamp test (for erections) if you...

To assess erections,Dr. Susan Lundgren, in this two-minute educational video, or tells and shows how...

vibrating an earthworm [ig informal lecture]

Here is the Ig Informal Lecture by the winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Physics Prize. TheIg Nobel...

the ig nobel prizes are a category on jeopardy,...

The television quiz display Jeopardy used the Ig Nobel Prizes as a category,in the program...

recent progress in monty python studies

Monty Python has not,repeat not, been ignored by academia. Here are links to but a few of the...

a look back at an ig nobel night in manchester

Here’s a look back at the Ig Nobel expose at the University of Manchester,two years ago. normally...

2019 ig nobel eurotour: thanks!

A big thank you to everyone and everything who (or that) came to,helped organize, or otherwise was...

opinion editor s opinion: first make them laugh,...

‘One of my favorite quotes that guides my writing,by the creators of the Ig Nobel Peace prize, is...

validating self reported munchy ism during...

Some people who travel to cannabis decriminalization advocacy events say,when questioned, that they...

patience and patience: perspective on plagiarism

Plagiarism keeps happening,despite teachers’ patient attempts to teach students that plagiarism is...

the meaning of shoes—specifically, of the word ...

Shoes can be meaningful,certain. The word “shoes is full of meaning, as are words for particular...

whithering commentary about misconduct

Whither,oh why, accomplish some researchers misconduct themselves professionally, and what is to be...

effect of air pollution on professional baseball...

Professional baseball umpires are not supposed to beget errors,yet they sometimes do. That happens...

computer usefulness in publishing, 1969 and now

In 1969 a publishing executive mused about whether and how computers had helped his industry:...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Olga Shishkov talking approximately some maggots,and some numbers that, when she was a...

attractive people more likely to believe the world...

A further attempt to define and understand the incompatibility between attractive people and people...

the case of toilet management in a french academic...

A look at how a library manages to manage the facilities that succor library users manage their...

how much cybersecurity is enough to save the...

Security? What kind of answer does that question really own? This paper gives an answer,kind of:...

correcting some physiology in gulliver s travels,...

Editing can be a slow process. A modern study suggests that a renowned novel published three...

the meaning of shoes—specifically, of the word...

Shoes can be meaningful,sure. The word “shoes” is full of meaning, as are words for specific...

when seafood scientists became food poisoned by...

Having failed to perish,they proceeded to publish. Serendipity ((n.) luck, finding good things...

a news dump, about taking a dump: the stool stool

Alex Blasdel,writing in The Guardian, waxes eloquent (expressing yourself readily, clearly,...

baseball medical skills: the hidden ball trick

This decades-musty medical report has received surprisingly cramped attention from the baseball...

evangelical subculture and phallically insecure...

What little things attain some men get excited approximately? That’s one of the questions...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Nicole Sharp talking approximately a boat ride that,when she was a child, excited Nicole in...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Suzana Herculano-Houzel,talking approximately the ink in water that, when she was a child,...

using amino acids to identify pornographic images

This study pioneers the spend of amino acids for identifying pornographic images: “Using Amino...

the times they are a changing: tv crews and...

The TV crew that visited today to interview me did something different—something that may mark the...

when would you like your improbable research table...

We are planning a novel series of Improbable Research Table Talks—and we want your advice...

interactive map of grunts, groans, sighs and other...

A surprisingly vocal map of human sounds and emotions now exists online. This map is not a...

automatic speech balloon detection and...

You might find that reading comedian books is complex and confusing,whether you are a machine....

stripes and tails against flies

“The Surprising Reason Zebras beget Stripes,” Ed Yong’s essay in The Atlantic, celebrates the...

he who tunes big bells, for better...

Few people find to tune a big bell. Fewer know that big bells need to be tuned. Those are two...

continuing the quest for perfect male nipple...

“Little is known approximately the perfect NAC [nipple–areola complex] position in men” –...

two tales of headphone jacks gone awry

Two reports about headphone jacks,appearing in the same year, raise possibilities. Here are portions...

a better rounded understanding of why wombat poo...

Ian Sample reports,in The Guardian, a unusual discovery by Ig Nobel Prize winners, and approximately...

the consequences of inconsequentialities [study]

People occasionally misplace seemingly inconsequential things – gloves,trainers, scarfs etc etc....

instability of an unsteered bicycle

A moving bicycle,when no one is riding it, is more steady than many people expect, or but it is not...

improbable research table talk: hazards of bearded...

Join us for a cozy chat approximately a research study that makes people laugh,then think. This...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Olga Shishkov talking about some bugs that,when Olga was a child, excited Olga in a way...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Nicole Sharp talking about the space station that,when she was a child, excited Nicole in a...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s Frans de Waal talking about some jackdaws that,when Frans was a child, excited him in a way...

reinforcing bitumen based road surfaces with waste...

“Synthetic hair wigs are made from modacrylic fibers that are synthesized to stare and feel same...

how phonies and self promoters came to rule the...

“Our obsession with money and susceptibility to charisma,over-confidence and surface gloss...

shoe concealments of yore - a recent study

Builders and archaeologists sometimes comes across old shoes (usually just one of a pair*) which...

a person who swallowed a snake whole (but died)

This recent study,describing a now-long-dead person who ate a snake whole, is reminiscent of the Ig...

brief versus thong hygiene in obstetrics and...

Does thong underwear present heal hazards? A unusual study addresses certain aspects of that...

dr. nudge

Did Dr. Nudge often nudge? You will contain to decide for yourself whether Dr. Nudge nudged often or...

learn how a swarm of maggots eats a pizza, in...

Olga Shishkov will discuss (and possibly demonstrate?) how a swarm of maggots eats a pizza,next...

thumbographs

Thumbographs are miniature books that people in England used,in the early 1900s, to gather...

unwordy analysis: can you identify authors by...

Can you identify who wrote a mammoth chunk of text,whether you remove all the words and examine only...

the utility fog of j. storm hall

Utility fog has a father,who wrote a report: “Utility Fog: A Universal Physical Substance, J....

some physicists love the cat metaphor

Erwin Schroedinger’s playful metaphor approximately a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive...

the height of policing

The higher one stands skeletally,the higher one stands in rank in the official realm of the Dutch...

the spiral stair or vice in medieval stone castles

Steps have been taken to better,more straightforwardly, understand the stair or vice. Read all...

improving weather and climate predictions by...

The authors of this weather-and-climate study did not resist the allure of shiny words: “Improving...

rubbing pubic hair with cocaine contaminated hands...

This hands-on study (hands on pubic hair) suggests that the hunt for illicit drug employ may be more...

the triumphal return of tiny (ig nobel prize...

Bandai America is bringing the nostalgia-infused virtual pet craze of “Tamagotchi” to a 21st...

of grizzly bears, and grizzly bears, and grizzly...

Insights approximately grizzly bears and some humans who spend time with grizzly bears: “Grizzlies...

vertebrates in the vegetable package, in the news

Humans are more omnivorous than some of us realize,sometimes, suggests this unique study:...

gorillas and humans, too, imitate each other

This report from Virunga National Park appears to broaden and confirm the Ig Nobel Prize-winning...

a nice new, short video portrait of dr. nakamats

Great great chronicle made this documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats. The producers...

the brain, just before the bungee jump

What happens inside a bungee jumpers brain just before the bungee jumper steps into the abyss? The...

hows and whys of there s a fly in my wine

Alex Dainis explains videographically the inner workings of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning experiment...

family name frequency and abundance of the...

IS AMERICAN final NAME FREQUENCY INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO TERRESTRIAL ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCE? by E. R....

stripes painted on the body protect against blood...

The Swedish and Hungarian researchers who won an Ig Nobel Prize (in 2016) for discovering why...

adding broccoli powder to coffee—a new taste...

“Green,nutrient-rich coffees may be on the horizon after researchers acquire developed a powder...

analysing pointless banter

‘Pointless’ is a common TV quiz-show series currently aired in the UK by the BBC. It’s hosted...

research on burnt food: where to go

whether you want to understand burnt foodunderstand it better than most humans beget managed...

the apostrophe s greatest champion has died

Sad news from Boston,England: John Richards, Ig Nobel Prize-winning founder of the Apostrophe...

derridian deconstruction of the futterwacken dance...

Itsnaini Lailiyah Ananda of Airlangga University,Surabaya, East Java, and presents (what is...

art is in the ai of the beholder: making mona lisa...

Art is in the AI of the beholder,so to speak. In a report called “Mona Lisa frown: Machine...

the mystery of cutting things in half...

Butchers, bakers and donutmakers probably won’t forsee all that much trouble in cutting something...

bbc history of the plastic pink flamingo

“This plastic pink flamingo,an enduring item of kitsch Americana, is as much a phenomenon as it is...

economic consequences of restrictions on the usage...

The research project “Economic Consequences of Restrictions on the Usage of Cookies” has...

saturday: ig nobel at imperial college london,...

Saturday afternoon The Ig Nobel EuroTour arrives at Imperial College London: March 16,Saturday, 3:00...

ig nobel today in st. andrews, scotland

The 2019 Ig Nobel EuroTour begins nowadays: March 9,Saturday, 1:00 pm—Science Discovery Day, or...

recursive nudging

The journal Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology is nudging its readers to submit articles for...

journal to retract article from 2000 that...

In digging up fabric for a book,I ran across a pair of quasi-identical articles on an unusual topic....

a look in the brains of publication hungry brain...

“The idea that one can study scholar journal publishing behavior by looking at their brain’s...

a taxonomy of ubiquitous little plastic thingies

The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group occupies itself by doing “research in the classification...

the holy grail re redux: notes of a retiring grail...

The Holy Grail Re-Redux: Notes of a Retiring Grail Watcher by Steve Nadis Boys of my generation were...

perry mason and the selection and use of puppets...

Perry Mason,famous Los Angeles attorney, is the central character in a series of novels, or then...

recent progress in my little pony studies

“This file represents a selection of papers presented at the first academic conference on My...

wrinkled sheets, crumpled paper

modern research approximately how paper crumples was done in the same chunk of Harvard that produced...

another cheese vibration experiment—this one...

“Can music perform cheese tastier? Swiss Emmental maker experiments” is the headline of an AFP...

the man who—with a blinding, flapping...

“John’s Story The Science of Error” is a unique documentary film approximately John...

chip crispness experiment, then further food...

“It all started in 2008,when Professor Charles Spence received the Ig Nobel Prize for his “sonic...

dead duck day 2020 kinda sorta postponed till 2022

The 25th Dead Duck Day,on June 5th, which was postponed from 2020 until 2021, and will be more or...

prize winner s new book about death and taxes and...

Joel Slemrod,who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating a relationship between death and...

hole apparatus for dissipating sock heat and...

“Users of shoe apparel (e.g.,shoes, sneakers, or etc.) often situation socks on their feet before...

2019 ig nobel prize ceremony spiffy poster...

Behold the OFFICIAL POSTER for the 29th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony,designed by Geri...

the secrets within prince shōtoku: the 70 objects...

Secrets will be revealed about how the the secrets were revealed about what was secreted inside a...

migrant warning: crossing the coffee cup barrier

When you score a cup of coffee from a vending machine,are you getting a soupćon of ink in your...

celebrating the invention of karaoke

CBS Sunday Morning celebrates the invention of karaoke—and the awarding,in 2004, of the Ig Nobel...

ig nobel - wednesday at u of manchester

UPDATE: This has been moved to a larger venue: It will be held in the Simon Building....

which eats its own faster, the tortoise or the...

Which is quicker to resort to cannibalism—tortoises or hares? Here’s one side of the story, a...

the prevalence of prestigious

When you read news reports about science or medicine, you can amuse yourself by noticing how often...

third generation ig nobel prize winner david hu,...

David Hus Ig Nobel Prize-winning research,and David Hu, and David Hu’s Ig Nobel Prize-winning...

the ups and downs of marine chairs

In the days when it was fundamental for marine navigators to be able to get a favorable visual fix...

logged logs

Say,how many logs would a lumber-carrier-vessel captain’s log log whether a lumber-carrier-vessel...

ways to use the chocolate issue

“Ways to utilize This Issue” is a featured article in the special Chocolate issue (volume 27,...

new look at some old bearded mathematicians

“Maxime Bôcher [pictured here],with his square beard and squarer shoes, was presiding. In the...

the strangeness correction about murray gell mann

This strangeness correction appeared in today’s New York Times: OBITUARIES An obituary on May 25...

the f note, a harmonious accompaniment to the f...

The Bibliolore blog tells some history about the supposed significance of the musical note F: The F...

what happens when one divides by zero on this...

Mathematics students learn (unless they are not really students) why people should not try to divide...

the function of evil laughter in popular culture...

One of the very few (perhaps the only) peer-reviewed scholarly studies devoted to investigating the...

recent progress in ratatouille studies

The 2007 publication of the Pixar film Ratatouille presented a unique set of opportunities for...

and the heartbeat goes on: nurse s gift memento of...

Becker’s Hospital Review reports: How this Intermountain nurse comforts deceased patients’...

clicker training for surgeons and other animals,...

A medical report approximately using clickers to train surgeons (rather than other kinds of animals)...

ig nobel on science friday on the day after...

The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast on the Science Friday program this...

borborygmi and alternative to colonoscopy news

News.com.au reports: Nobel winner’s device listens to your intestine A non-invasive way for...

fishbase profile : the inexplicable shrimpgoby

The Inexplicable Shrimpgoby (Cryptocentrus inexplicatus) was named as such by the American...

shareholder value destruction following tiger wood...

Tiger Woods,the celebrated professional golfer, was in a car crash in 2020. This was his moment...

how are ig nobel prize winning papers cited?

The Scite organization analyzed some of what happened to the research papers that won Ig Nobel...

beware of tiny pseudofossils

A current study warns that teeny tiny fossils may,in many cases, turn out to be only...

neither a spender nor a buyer be: the zero rupee...

Is notes that has no value of no value? The zero-rupee note,issued in India by non-governmental...

dance of the dung beetles: a book for all humans...

Ig Nobel Prize winner Marcus Byrne has a unique book called Dance of the Dung Beetles. It can please...

maggots, and the aftermath of your meals

“Can maggots devour all our food waste?” and convert the food bits we wasted into something...

retract! retract! retract!

Retraction Watch reports: Ladies and gentlemen,we appear to have a novel record. The Journal of...

improbable research tonight in washington, dc

Join us tonight at the Improbable Research show at the AAAS Annual assembly,Omni Shoreham Hotel (in...

thievery and the power of engineering: it s not...

Mark Rober engineered a device to surprise people who steal packages from his front porch. His video...

the paper clip: its various uses in medicine

“The Paper Clip Nasal Dilator” is one of several studies featured in the article “The Paper...

dickey s gander at a quibble about pitch: 432 hz...

Colin Dicky takes a gander at a cocked quibble,in the essay “Pitch Battles—HOW A PARANOID FRINGE...

the man who was and was not freddie mercury—and...

A psychiatric report approximately “a patient who was a double for and imitator of the late...

evaluating students evaluations of medical...

Some medical schools may be selecting or rejecting faculty members because those individuals enact...

psychologists under the bed [research study]

“ ’Egocentricity’ in Adult Conversation,” is one of several studies featured in the article...

word of the week : deacquire

It might be commonly said that we ‘acquire’ knowledge,acquire’ a smartphone, or ‘acquire’...

intimate knowledge of the ostrich whisperer?

In this video, a person called “the Ostrich Whisperer” appears to display an intimate knowledge...

picture the heat stress on poultry

One picture is perhaps worth 1000 squawks. That picture is figure 3 (captioned “Schematic diagram...

protecting large hollow chocolate bunnies

“Protecting Large Hollow Chocolate Bunnies” is a featured article in the special Chocolate issue...

two historic brassiere to face mask innovations

Dr. Elena Bodnar‘s 2009 Ig Nobel Prize-winning Emergency Bra may be the most spectacular and...

authors: can boozing alleviate writer s cramp?...

“hold you tried taking a stiff drink or two?” might not be a question that a professional writer...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

Here’s David Hu talking about seeing the birth of his sister—an experience that,when he was a...

a visit to the prize winning doctor who examined...

Thai PBS sent a news crew to visit Akira Horiuchi,the Japanese doctor who pioneered...

wednesday is dead duck day

The 24th annual Dead Duck Day celebration happens on Wednesday,June 5, 2019. Dead Duck Day honors...

researchers retract a paper because it turns out...

Retraction Watch reports: Researchers retract a paper because it turns out not to be approximately...

recent progress in super mario bros studies

The 30+ years since the launch of Super Mario Bros. beget given ample opportunity for scholars to...

recovering fire gazing as a moving image...

whether you thought that animation technology began with the invention of the magic lantern in the...

woodpeckers don t play football - new viewpoints...

A newly published editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine draws attention to what it...

when were world standards day 2018?

This year,2018, World Standards Day was celebrated on October 14. In Canada, and World Standards Day...

abulziement and abusion

Abulziement and Abusion can each be found in James B. Montgomerie-Fleming‘s Notes on Jamiesons...

many words about silent books

Silent books are books meant to be shared with people who may not share a language—people who are...

the kidney stone of alderman adams

The History of Parliament blog detects a connection between Ig Nobel Prize-winning...

occupational marks

Occupational marks represent the effects of a repeated specific activity on a worker’s,...

a multi aperture pinhole camera using a biscuit...

Dr Patrick Cabe who is a member of the emeritus faculty at the University of North Carolina at...

some arithmetic about non reading of writing

Aaron Gordon’s writing about written reports that few people maintain read has probably been read...

the value of spit, in the art world

A proper appreciation of spit might have prevented an art tragedy. The tragedy is reported by VN...

serial killers and the permian-triassic boundary...

Mikhail Simkin writes approximately his discovery of a discovery: A Killer Reference I got a...

why he calculated the internal poo pressure of a...

Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow tells why he and his colleagues calculated the internal pressure of a...

the day ig nobel people came together at hokkaido...

This film documents what happened when I (founder of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony) visited two Ig...

continuing investigations into the origin(s) of...

Scholarly investigations into the origins of the word “Cat” are not yet complete. A current set...

recalling experiments past - reciting poetry to a...

Somewhere round or approximately the late 1850s, John Tyndall FRS [* see note below] was developing...

avoiding teabag flotation annoyances [patent]

“It is common to prepare tea by immersion of a porous bag filled with tea into a cup of hot...

skull penetration interventions to combat zombies

An article in the Journal of Neuroscience Nursing,February 2019, Volume :51 Number 1, and discusses...

nude photos of college students, for research or...

Many people like to study the nude bodies of other people. This study studied some of those students...

double helix conductors and their extraordinary...

Medical Energetics Ltd. of Galway,Ireland, has just been granted (Nov. 2018) a US patent for the...

turbo charging a 120 volt hot dogger on 250 volts

Bigclivedotcom offers this video adventure in electrical/culinary engineering. The official...

ig nobel chemistry prize winner in the news again

BBC News reports: The former chief executive of the carmaker Volkswagen has been charged in Germany...

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wednesday ig nobel at stockholm university,...

do beer mats make bad frisbees?

a psychoanalytic analysis of the superglue...

calculating a fearful evolution of godzilla

national income inequality predicts cultural...

how to do the stamp test (for erections) if you...

vibrating an earthworm [ig informal lecture]

the ig nobel prizes are a category on jeopardy,...

recent progress in monty python studies

a look back at an ig nobel night in manchester

2019 ig nobel eurotour: thanks!

opinion editor s opinion: first make them laugh,...

validating self reported munchy ism during...

patience and patience: perspective on plagiarism

the meaning of shoes—specifically, of the word ...

whithering commentary about misconduct

effect of air pollution on professional baseball...

computer usefulness in publishing, 1969 and now

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

attractive people more likely to believe the world...

the case of toilet management in a french academic...

how much cybersecurity is enough to save the...

correcting some physiology in gulliver s travels,...

the meaning of shoes—specifically, of the word...

when seafood scientists became food poisoned by...

a news dump, about taking a dump: the stool stool

baseball medical skills: the hidden ball trick

evangelical subculture and phallically insecure...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

using amino acids to identify pornographic images

the times they are a changing: tv crews and...

when would you like your improbable research table...

interactive map of grunts, groans, sighs and other...

automatic speech balloon detection and...

stripes and tails against flies

he who tunes big bells, for better...

continuing the quest for perfect male nipple...

two tales of headphone jacks gone awry

a better rounded understanding of why wombat poo...

the consequences of inconsequentialities [study]

instability of an unsteered bicycle

improbable research table talk: hazards of bearded...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

innovative scientists talk about their childhood...

reinforcing bitumen based road surfaces with waste...

how phonies and self promoters came to rule the...

shoe concealments of yore - a recent study

a person who swallowed a snake whole (but died)

brief versus thong hygiene in obstetrics and...

dr. nudge

learn how a swarm of maggots eats a pizza, in...

thumbographs

unwordy analysis: can you identify authors by...

the utility fog of j. storm hall

some physicists love the cat metaphor

the height of policing

the spiral stair or vice in medieval stone castles

improving weather and climate predictions by...

rubbing pubic hair with cocaine contaminated hands...

the triumphal return of tiny (ig nobel prize...

of grizzly bears, and grizzly bears, and grizzly...

vertebrates in the vegetable package, in the news

gorillas and humans, too, imitate each other

a nice new, short video portrait of dr. nakamats

the brain, just before the bungee jump

hows and whys of there s a fly in my wine

family name frequency and abundance of the...

stripes painted on the body protect against blood...

adding broccoli powder to coffee—a new taste...

analysing pointless banter

research on burnt food: where to go

the apostrophe s greatest champion has died

derridian deconstruction of the futterwacken dance...

art is in the ai of the beholder: making mona lisa...

the mystery of cutting things in half...

bbc history of the plastic pink flamingo