J.J. Schmitz, R.A. Pribush, R.P. Walson, Chemistry Department, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, ?A Forensic-Chemical Analysis of Duct Tape?
Such was the most-publicized presentation at the SCANNING 2004 Conference, which was held on April 28, 2004. For bare details, see here.
The July/August 2004 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research includes an all-purpose press release. We have put it online:
“A Template for Scientific Press Releases and Science News Articles,” by Scott A. Sandford, Jason P. Dworkin and Max P. Bernstein.
Investigator Genevieve Reynolds sends in support for the notion that, sometimes, death stinks. See here.
Shopping trolleys are a window, however small, to our inner being….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. It describes the latest research from 2003 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner John Trinkaus. Read the column here.
The world’s vast collection of research journals contain many reports about positive results that turn out, later, to be simply not so. A small number of journals work hard to publish results that are, from the beginning, apparently not so. Here are two such journals.
The Journal of Negative Results website is here.
The Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis website is here. (Thanks to investigator Angela Close for bringing it to our attention.)
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