Where can — where should — one go for after having sex with a dead deer or unsuccessful sex with a dead horse? To the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minnesota, according to a March 21, 2007 Associated Press report: Man gets probation for dead deer sex “A 20-year-old man received probation […]
Month: March 2007
Celebrity check (partial)
Celebrities have been asked to check their facts before lending support to scientific research. So says a January 3, 2007 BBC report. The celebrities are not being asked to check their facts at other times. (Thanks to investigator T.C. Rashad for bringing this to our attention.)
Karen D. Alfrey joins the LFHCfS
Karen D. Alfrey has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Michael Croft, who nominated her, says: Karen is a lecturer at IUPUI, the palindromic university. She is a musician and a singer and once sang the national anthem at the opening of a horse-racing track. Professionally, she is interested in biological modelling mostly […]
Stale monk breath
Automated breath analysis, the police officer’s best tool for identifying drunk drivers, has another use. Three Greek chemists tell all in a report called Analysis of Expired Air of Fasting Male Monks at Mount Athos. Published in a magazine few police officers read, the Journal of Chromatography B, the study comes up with a new […]
Scholarship on a bag: Polenta
Investigator Jim Barfield writes: “The Good Health Natural Foods Company produces some pretty good olive oil potato chips and have recently come up with Solea Polenta Corn Chips. The back of the bag states: Polenta can be traced back to ancient Rome, where early civilizations toasted corn over a hot fire and then ground it […]
Kees’s diary of the UK Ig tour
Kees (“the duck guy”, also known as “the sparrow guy”) Moeliker kept a mini-diary of the 2007 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. It’s published in the March 20, 2007 issue of The Guardian, under the headline: Make ’em laugh, make ’em laugh, make ’em think NOTE: video from the Imperical College event, and details […]
A wise nine
Investigator David Hartley writes: The poet Horace recommended a nine-year delay between writing and publishing (see his Ars Poetica). Not a bad editorial policy, you may think, looking at some of the stuff that gets published.
Non-biological hair
Where does one obtain non-biological hair? From Gentle Giant Enterprise Ltd., of China. They offer the following details: Product Group: Fake Mustaches Product Description: 1. It is the newly developed mustache. 2. Very popular in U. S. A and Europe. 3. Good giveaway for your promotion. Packing detail: One pcs / card paper with PP […]
Video of the 2007 Ig UK tour
The biggest event on this year’s Ig Nobel UK Tour was filmed, and can now be viewed online. (It’s about 90 minutes long.) This particular show happened Thursday night, March 15, in the Great Hall at Imperial College London. The image at right shows Nature editor-in-chief Philip Campbell and chemist Fiona Barclay going finger-to-nose during […]
Two build-it-yourself houses
Huge ‘Printer’ Would Build a House in 24 Hours Behrokh Khoshnevis (USC Engineering) has been perfecting his contour crafting device, which squirts semi-liquid construction materials to form walls and domed ceilings. His ultimate objective? “The goal is to be able to completely construct a one-story, 2000-square foot home on site, in one day and without […]