Photographic evidence of young children being tortured at Indiana State University? Perhaps not, implies a June 7, 2006 press release. The official story has it that: Professor John Ozmun and graduate student Lee Robbins test a young subject carrying weighted cardboard blocks while wearing a portable metabolic unit The press release also says, conjoining a […]
Month: July 2006
Raising one’s standard
Investigator Fiona Barclay recommends an unusual competition that organizers describe almost laconically: The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it’s a big spurting penis?
Scratch hard
Can capsaicin – the chemical that causes most of the burning sensation when you chomp on a chilli pepper – relieve itching at the nether end of the digestive tract? A team of Israeli scientists tried to find out…. So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Arunachalam Kumar joins LFHCfS
Arunachalam Kumar has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says: I have long flowing mane that has been consistently a subject for ridicule and notoriety over the decades. I have even lost a term or two at my medical school in the seventies for sporting shoulder length hair. Today, at 57, I […]
Re-emergence of quick barbeque
The beloved video of 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner George Goble igniting a barbeque in record time by using charcoal and liquid oxygen was unavailable for a while. Why? Because certain administrators feared that certain other administrators might fear that shadowy, barbeque-craving terrorists would learn something or other from it. The video can once again […]
Sridhar Narasimhan returns from LFHCfS sabbatical
Sridharakumar Narasimhan has returned to the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists after his haircut sabbatical. He says: I would like to return to the esteemed LFHCS after a temporary leave of absence (hair cut sabbatical). I have also moved to the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, as a post-doc. I have not updated […]
Parable of The Frog and The Mouse?
There is a possible need for a Parable of The Frog and The Mouse, suggests a June 30, 2006 Reuters photograph from Lucknow, India. (Thanks to Investigator Sip Siperstein for bringing this to our attention.) Technorati Profile
Hairballs?
Do you like hairballs? So does Dr. Noah Raizman. His little collection of favorite hairball citations appears in the May/June issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.