We were delighted to run across a photo of two Ig Nobel Prize-winners — Dan Quayle and Reverend Sun-Myung Moon — together. (Click on the link, then scroll halfway down the page to see it.)
Month: September 2004
Ig: Moon & Quayle
We were delighted to run across a photo of two Ig Nobel Prize-winners — Dan Quayle and Reverend Sun-Myung Moon — together. (Click on the link, then scroll halfway down the page to see it.)
Lester’s Pithy Papers
Those who achieve stardom in academia are much like their counterparts in movies and television – they can be unfairly, if admiringly, pigeonholed by their public. Consider the case of David Lester…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.
Phobia Party on Ig Night
Igor Rafailov, author of the splendid illustrated book Dictionary of Phobias, sent us this humble, fearless letter. In it, he invites you to, among other things, attend a party: Neither “limophobia” means fear of lemonade, nor “cairophobia” means fear of Cairo. This is why you should read this text through, and have your copy of […]
Tootsie Pop Research
Research about Tootsie Pops has produced a collection of data. (Thanks to Gen Reynolds for bringing this to our attention.)
Antipodean Bureaucrats
The Bureaucracy Club? welcomes a new chapter: The Bureaucracy Club? of the Antipodes Islands.
The Morphology of Steve
The July/August 2004 issue of the Annals of Improbable Research includes lots about Steves. We have put the entire article online: “The Morphology of Steve,” by Eugenie C. Scott, et al
From sterilised bears to Hello Kitty
Whatever your gut feelings are about formally published research reports, you will likely agree that certain of them are, in a word, cutesy, and others are just plain icky. Here are some of each. Cutesy: The Case of the Burly Wee Man… So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian. Read it here.
Big bugs
Truly big things that look like bugs can be had form Giant Microbes, or so they say. Their web site is here. (Thanks to Moritz Paehler for bringing this to our attention.)