Here is an experiment that needs doing. Obtain a cat and a computer. Install PawSense (the Ig Nobel Prize-winning software that detects when a cat is using your keyboard, and locks out the keyboard), and then go to what is billed as “the world’s first website for cats,” which you can find here.
Month: August 2004
Miss Autogena’s Sound Mirror
Last year’s press release about Miss Autogena’s sound mirror can be read here. Technical details can be seen here. A not-entirely-related picture of someone breathing into a tube can be seen here.
Testis-Ovary Runners-Up
The winner of the TESTIS-OVARY LIMERICK COMPETITION were announced in mini-AIR 2004-08. The winner in some sense explored the research report: The ERK MAP Kinase Cascade Mediates Tail Swelling and a Protective Response to Rectal Infection in C. elegans,” Hannah R. Nicholas and Jonathan Hodgkin, Current Biology, vol. 14, 2004, pp. 1256-61. The authors report […]
Charmed By a Fly Book
Vincent Dethier loved flies with a fervour that is rare. He distilled this love into a book called To Know a Fly…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.
COMING EVENT: Godzilla & Cheese
Mark this date: 16 September 2004, 4:00 pm. Larry Martin and I are doing a public lecture in the Center for East Asian Studies Wine and Cheese series (no, I am not making this up), at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, on Godzilla. So writes investigator J.E. Simmons. He is not making it up. Read […]
COMING EVENT: Godzilla & Cheese
Mark this date: 16 September 2004, 4:00 pm. Larry Martin and I are doing a public lecture in the Center for East Asian Studies Wine and Cheese series (no, I am not making this up), at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building, on Godzilla. So writes investigator J.E. Simmons. He is not making it up. Read […]
Difficult To Say
There are recent new claims about what words, in various langauges, are most difficult to translate. See details here. (Thanks to investigator David Kessler for bringing this to our attention.)
Warrier Bird Memorial
Investigator Andrew Conroy writes, in regard to the ” British Strategic Pigeon Initiative vs. American Strategic Missile Defense Initiative” survey that was conducted in mini-AIR 2004-06 and mini-AIR 2004-07: In Worthing, UK, we have the world’s only war memorial to birds lost in action! This memorial to so-called “Warrior Birds” resides in Beach House Park […]
Digging For Dragons
“Christian dinosaur hunters dig for signs of Biblical dragons.” Read all about it in a news report by the Daily Telegraph, here. (Thanks to Sally Shelton for bringing this to our attention.)
Ig Nobel Poster
Here’s a downloadable poster for the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The paper version (which just went off to the printer) is white-on-black, the reverse of the version here. For additional details about the ceremony, see the 2004 Ceremony home page.