A louse and lice are in the news. A December 5, 2005 report by the Associated Press explains: Doctor confesses on head-lice "cure" By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO ? Parents who paid $285 for an experimental head-lice treatment for their children might be scratching their own heads, now that the doctor selling the […]
Month: December 2005
An improbable lecture, on video
The WGBH Forum Network captured, cleaned, dressed, and now has served up (on its web site) an improbable research talk by Marc Abrahams, given on April 1, 2005, at Boston’s Museum of Science. The subject: improbable research and the Ig Nobel Prizes. This video features a rare, fleeting glimpse at Eric Workman, the cheerful master […]
Baby emotion translator
"Team works on baby emotion translator" is the headline on an April 7, 2005 report by ABC News: Researchers at Japan’s Nagasaki University School of Medicine have launched a project to develop a device to read babies’ emotions from their facial expressions, body temperatures and other physical cues. A research team led by Kazuyuki Shinohara, […]
The Infinite Lectures
The November/December issue is the annual Ig Nobel issue of the magazine. Here is an advance look at another of the articles — the photo-spread documenting the Infinite Lectures that were part of the 2005 ceremony. We hope you will subscribe to the Annals of Improbable Research, and maybe also give a gift subscription to […]