Improbable Research

Investigator Genevieve Reynolds alerts us to the existence of the Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine. She writes:

It’s a "radon mine." That you spend time in. For your health. Because of the radon. They also have free high-speed internet service ("even underground!"), and you can bring your pet for radon therapy… (Note also that the Mine Motel has "8 units, non-smoking." That’s because smoking is a carcinogen! Bad carcinogen. Bad.) Be sure to check out the photo gallery.

High-flying Dr. Margaret Kosal has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).

Richard Neimi (whose name is misspelled) has calculated the name number for political scientists. His report appears in the July/August issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. The "Name Number concept" was pioneered by Kevin Krajick, in an article in the March/April issue of the magazine.

AND… if you look at Professor Niemi (name non-misspelled)’s report, and scroll to the bottom of it, you will see Grover Quist’s powerful, experiment "Slugs, Snails and Coffee." The experiment was performed in Washington, DC.

Mr. Kewal Anand of Lokayata, India, and his colleagues announce that

We have prepared a VHS telling how the evolution of toilets from 2500 BC to-date has taken place. We can drive you visually on, for about half-an-hour.

Andre Geim, who shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Physics Prize with Michael Berry for using magnets to levitate a frog, is in the news again:

A team of British and Russian scientists led by Professor Geim have discovered a whole family of previously unknown materials, which are one atom thick and exhibit properties which scientists had never thought possible.

Details appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.