Improbable Research

Old food lingers on, in the memory and in print. AIR publishes a reviews of cafeterias at the world’s great research institutions. In 1996 our reviewer Stephen Drew visited the Whitehead Institute, where he encountered a meal. Read about it here.

When a Japanese scientist examined rocks under a microscope, he saw evidence that all modern living creatures are descended from teeny-tiny organisms very like the big ones we see (and are) today. He gave a name to these extinct ancestral species. He called them “mini-creatures.” …

So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.

How to get girls interested in science? It can be done. It has been done. A certain professor, writing under cover of a pen name, explains how here.

Curious about the solution to the puzzler? See the solution that’s in the January-February 2004 issue (vol. 10, no. 1) of the Annals of Improbable Research. Find it here.

For a good, concise, pictorial introduction to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), savor the two-page spread that appears in the Special Beauty Issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. Read it here.

Then go to the Club’s home page, which is here. If you know someone who should be a member, please urge her or him to make a good showing, for science.