British Military Planned Chicken-Powered NukeA once secret plan to build a nuclear landmine ‘run’ by live chickens has gone on public display for the first time at The National Archives, Kew, as part of the acclaimed Secret State Exhibition. Conceived during the Cold War, the seven tonne device was the size of small truck and […]
Month: April 2005
Puzzling solutions
We at the Annals of Improbable Research have a large collection of puzzle solutions to which we have lost the puzzles. There seemed no reason not to publish them. The first organized collection appears in the March/April 2005 issue of the magazine.
Universidad de Moron
Investigator J.L. Rincon writes: Having lived most of my life in Argentina, but spent much of the past five years in North America and Europe, I will have you know that no great educational institution suffers more — and more unjustly! — from its name than the Universidad de Moron. From afar, though, I must […]
Longenecker, Newby join LFHCfS
Possibly with the tacit approval or disapproval of a distinguished colleague, Dr. Ken Longenecker of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). So, too, has Josh Newby, the perhaps-soon-to-be-famous graduate student in physical chemistry at Purdue University.