Improbable Research

Everybody wins but the short-legged anoles.

So writes John Hawks about an experiment conducted by J.B. Losos and some friends. Hawks goes on to say “this is an experiment where they basically let the velociraptors loose.”

Eco-friendly bra doubles as shopping bag

Lingerie manufacturer Triumph International Japan has unveiled a new type of brassiere that can be converted into a shopping bag. Called the ?No! Shopping Bag Bra? (NO! reji-bukuro bra), the environmentally-friendly lingerie is designed to promote the reduction of pl

astic bag consumption, a key objective of the revised Containers and Packaging Recycling Law hammered out by Japanese lawmakers in June.

So reports the Pink Tentacle blog on November 8, 2006.

The Bagger 288 is a rather big machine.

(Thanks to investigator Fran Shea for bringing this to our attention.)

Squidsoap seems to be conducting a psychology experiment (details unspecified to the public) involving soap, red paint, children, a mantra (”Training Tomorrow’s Great Hand Washers”), and the viewers of a television commercial about all of the above.

Mousy off-flavour is one of the wine industry’s little embarrassments, and has been since at least the 1890s, when the concept first seeped into published documents. Few have written or spoken of it plainly.

Now a team of Australian food scientists is dishing the dirt on mousy off- flavour, with a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Suggesting that perhaps it will be adapted for the musical theatre, the report is called Mousy Off-flavour: A Review….

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