This photo below shows Rob Ives an hour before he lectured about his experience as a design engineer. (The lecture was part of the Improbable Research seminar at Imperial College London, on November 26.) Ives is a master maker of all-paper mechanical toys. His company, Flying Pig, makes punch-out-the-pieces-and-assemble-’em-yourself kits in two forms: pre-printed, pre-scored […]
Year: 2007
The Kadir-Buxton Method
Decades ago I discovered a cure for mental health problems. The cure, which I term the Kadir-Buxton Method, has been used on a wide variety of mental health problems. The procedure stuns and resets the brain of the patient, so that the patient returns to a normal condition. The Kadir-Buxton Method is done by making […]
Holiday season alert: Psychotic shoppers
Dr. Paul Albanese, Kent State University associate professor of marketing and author of The Personality Continuum and Consumer Behavior, has taken [things] a step further. In his current research, Albanese examined shopping behavior and classified it into four levels of personality development: Normal, neurotic, primitive and psychotic. So says a December 6, 2007 press release […]
Ten-mile-high-building discoverer announces new discoveries
1997 Ig Nobel Astronomy Prize winner Richard Hoagland has a new book out. He won his Ig for identifying artificial features on the moon and on Mars, including a human face on Mars and ten-mile high buildings on the far side of the moon. Those discoveries appear in his book “The Monuments of Mars : […]