Eric Schulman, famed author of The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less (which appeared in the January/February 1997 issue of AIR), has produced another in his continuing statistical analyses of fame (which is related, in a fashion, to celebrity). Click here to see Schulman’s new study in its entirety. Here is a […]
Month: February 2009
Magazine issue 15:1 — Mummies, Zombies & Bagels issue
The Jan/Feb 2009 issue (vol. 15, no. 1) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) just went out. It’s a special Mummies, Zombies & Bagles issue, with research reports about medicinal mummy powder, bagel specifications, zombie drug analysis, and more. Click on the magazine cover (below) to: Download a free low-res PDF version (cheesiest!) […]
The Challenge of money for free (“chemical free”)
The Royal Society of Chemistry, their curiosity and pique piqued by the phrase “100% chemical free“, is offering to make someone rich. Their October 30, 2008 press release (which, perhaps ironically, is in digital form and thus is itself chemical-free) explains: It has been misappropriated and maligned as synonymous with “poison”. The Advertising Standards Authority […]
The Attitudes To Chocolate Questionnaire
A report called The Development of the Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire, published in 1998, tells how three researchers at the University of Wales, Swansea, cooked up a new analytic tool. Psychologists had long craved a way to assess someone’s craving for chocolate. Why chocolate? Because “chocolate is by far the most commonly craved food”. It […]