The Spanish edition of the book The Ig Nobel Prizes is now out.
Month: December 2004
How High Jump Those Fleas?
Four years ago, Marie-Christine Cadiergues demonstrated that dog fleas jump higher than cat fleas. Cosmopolite flea fans are probably still gaga over Cadiergues’s report – city folk tend to care about cats and dogs (and by extension, their little passengers) more than about other animals. But a new report by Boris Krasnov compares the jumping […]
A Photo of Owney
Many readers have requested a look at Owney, or rather at the carcass of Owney, the late postal mascot dog, who/which is on display at the Museum of Postal History, in Washington, DC. The Museum’s web site now has a lovely photo. Owney’s tale is told, we have just learned, in yet another (yes, there’s […]