Room 007 of the Love Building at Gatech, Atlanta, Georgia is the home of the Hoogle Lab. It’s run by David L. Hu (Assistant Professor of Fluid Mechanics) who is the corresponding author for the robotic jumping-beans study which Improbable recently profiled. But the Hoogle Lab doesn’t exclusively focus on jumping beans, it also investigates the […]
Year: 2014
Fashionable photos of the Ig Nobel ceremony
Of the many press reports about this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, perhaps the nicest photo spread was done by the magazine Paris Match.
The Mini-Cup Jelly Court Cases
The mini-cup jelly court cases are no longer quite so far beneath the world’s “attention radar” awareness level. A new study dares to look at, and speak of, them: “The Mini-Cup Jelly Court Cases: A Comparative Analysis from a Food Ethics Perspective,” Suk Shin Kim, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, October 2014, Volume 27, Issue 5, […]
Ig Nobel winner triumphs: “Italy lifts out of recession thanks to hookers, drugs”
Congratulations to this year’s Ig Nobel economics prize winner — ISAT — both on its Ig Nobel Prize and on ISTAT’s influence on the Italian economy. The AFP news agency reports, on October 15, 2014: Italy lifts out of recession thanks to hookers, drugs Italy learnt it was no longer in a recession on Wednesday thanks […]