Investigator Roberto Lopez alerts us to this wooden digital clock, which is manually operated by many men working together. Click on the image to see it in operation.
Year: 2009
Petting pets, inviting immunity
Ig-Nobel-winning work, in some cases, is just one step in pursuing an idea down a long path. “Effect of Petting a Dog on Immune System Function,” C.J. Charnetski, S. Riggers, and F.X. Brennan, Psychological Reports, vol. 95, no. 3, part 2, December 2004, pp. 1087–91 [AIR 15:4]. Charnetski and Brennan, who shared the 1997 Ig […]
Restless Genital Syndrome
Prof. Dr. Marcel D. Waldinger of The Hague Leyenburg General Hospital, in The Netherlands, has “renamed [a] combination of complaints as he speaks of Restless Genital Syndrome.” Here are details: Restless Genital Syndrome is a medical disorder that has been reported only in women. These women report weird sensations at the clitoris, vagina, labia and […]
White Christmas, white noise
Seasonal research brought to our attention by investigator Kristine Danowski: “Another White Christmas: fantasy proneness and reports of ‘hallucinatory experiences’ in undergraduate students,” Harald Merckelbach and Vincent van de Ven, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, vol. 32, no. 3, September 2001, pp. 137-144. The authors, at Maastricht University, in The Netherlands, report: “44 […]