Here are the top Tenn research studies for 2008. Each study was written or co-written by a researcher named Tenn. (The selections were made by the Annals of Improbable Research‘s Top Tenn List Selection Committee.): 1. “Comparison of selected skin decontaminant products and regimens against VX in domestic swine,” S Bjarnason, J Mikler, I Hill, […]
Year: 2008
Mel Better Localized
I am not immune to the human failings that have beset others who sent you historic photos of Mel. I sorrowfully report that the photo you printed (AIR Vents 14:3) which I sent you which shows Mel during his visit to Notre Dame in 1909, with an inscription on the back signed by three Paris […]
Big: Hand
“How Big Is a Hand?”, N.D. Rossiter, P. Chapman and I.A. Haywood, Burns, vol. 22, no. 3, May 1996, pp. 230–1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-4179(95)00118-2). The authors, who are at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, London, UK, report: Exactly what constitutes ‘the palm of the hand’ and how large an area this is, depends on whether you follow […]
How It (Ig) Works, so they say
The How Things Work web site offers its analysis (by Robert Lamb) of how the Ig Nobel Prizes work: