Saul Newman‘s book, titled Morbid, is now loosed upon the world of people who want to read books that make people laugh, then really think. Published by MIT Press, it’s based on and extends the research that won Newman an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2024 Ig Nobel Demography Prize was awarded to Saul Justin Newman, […]
Ambition and words shine abundantly in The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form . The limericks are numerous, and of wide-ranging quality. The dictionary’s proprietors say: “Our primary goal in compiling this dictionary is to write at least one limerick for each meaning of each and every word in the English language. Our best limericks […]
The Norwegian Consumer Council made this lovely short video about enshittifcation, the practice of making products and services crappier than they should or need be. It’s called “The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator” and also called “Killing Things”. Update: Thanks to Lauren Maurer for alerting us to a predecessor video called “A Day in […]
Hair counters count hairs. Scalp-hair counters can and maybe should celebrate that this year, 2026, is the fortieth anniversary year of the publication of one of the most treasured studies of how to improve one’s ability to count scalp hairs. That study is: “Quantification of Scalp Hair — A Computer-Aided Methodology,” Robert D. Gibbons, Virginia […]