Troy Hurtubise (1998 Ig Nobel Prize winner for creating and personally testing a suit of armor he hopes will protect him against grizzly bears) has a new project, which seems to be called Blue Collar Iron Man. In this brief video, Troy and his wife and others explain, more or less: BONUS: Brian Gibson’s essay […]
Month: November 2010
28 Straight Hours at the Keyboard
German and Austrian researchers analysed what happened to pianist Armin Fuchs when he spent more than a full day playing over and over again, nonstop, an oddly-named piece of music by a French composer. They also analysed what happened to the music. This was a tour de force of artistic and neurological repetition. The research […]
Artificial flying turkey & pie-delivery system
A display of Yankee ingenuity, and perhaps of other things as well: a remote-control flying mechanical turkey designed to drop pies on people’s heads. (Thanks to investigator Caroline Cox for bringing it to our attention.)
November mini-AIR
The November issue of mini-AIR just went out. Topics include: Tea Survey: The Agony of the Leaves; The Date of the Next Ig; Blue Alert — Dyed But Not Dead; Accuracy-of-100.4% Competition; Xenoturbella Acoelomorph Poet; Coefficient of Obliviousness; etc. Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.” (mini-AIR is the simplest way to keep informed about Improbable […]