Here’s a little item about smallness. By one definition, 10 percent of something is small, no matter how large or small the something is. That may (or may not) be the central lesson in a convoluted November 18, 2007 News-Press (Southern Florida) report: County election officials say the number of voters lost through Florida’s central […]
Year: 2007
Ig Nobel documentary on NTV this weekend
The Russian network NTV has just made a documentary about the Ig Nobel Prizes. NTV visited and interviewed many people?including Ig Nobel Prize winners whose achievements include (among others) the Nudist Research Library, sword-swallowing, patenting the combover, and using magnets to levitate a frog. Broadcast is scheduled for Sunday, December 9, 2007, at 21.00 (Moscow […]
The Tim-ness of Tim, the Bob-ness of Bob
New parents beware! is the implied theme of a new study called Who Do You Look Like? Evidence for the Existence of Facial Stereotypes for Male Names. The researchers are forthright. They are blunt. They begin their report with this little shocker: “Choosing a name for a forthcoming baby occupies a good deal of time […]
Improbable Research: now in pretty PDFs
We are pleased to announce: You can now buy high-res, downloadable PDFs of current and recent issues of the Annals of Improbable Research. Get ’em one at a time, or get a whole year (six issues) at a time. Mel says: “They’re swell!”