Prestidigitization in situ

Today we unveiled the revised, prestidigitized version of this, the Improbable Research web site. Some tinkering (and perhaps a bit of bug fixing) comes next. Then watch for a nice, wobbly trickle of new material and people and whatnot. We have moved our blog so that it now lives right here on the web site. […]

Sprint test / toad toxicity

Investigator Richard Fitzpatrick writes: It seems to me that catching goannas, frill-necked lizards and saltwater crocodiles, making them run away from you, catching them again, feeding them potentially poisonous pur?ed toad skin and then letting them run away again (and presumably catching them again, although this is not stated explicitly) would be research techniques that […]

Dude

The story of dude – its rise, its role, its rich history as a word – takes 25 pages to tell. University of Pittsburgh linguistics professor Scott Fabius Kiesling‘s analysis of dude is entitled "Dude"…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian