Join us Monday afternoon at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, for a talk about improbable research and the Ig Nobel Prizes. It begins at 3:00 pm. Hecklers are, as always, welcome. Here are details.
Year: 2017
McSweeney’s ‘Cheese Problems Solved’
Anyone with cheese problems might consider reading the book Cheese Problems Solved, edited by Paul L.H. McSweeney, published by Elsevier in 2007. McSweeney is a Professor of Food Chemistry in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College, Cork, Ireland. Readers of cheese detective stories might especially relish the report “How May the ‘Toad-Skin’ and Cat-Hair’ Defects […]
Readers needed for the Ig Nobel event at Arisia
Calling all Arisia fen: Improbable Research will return to Arisia on Friday night, January 12, 2018 and we’re asking the fen to nominate people to read from some research papers (that we will supply) on stage. What qualities should the person you nominate have to be a reader at this event: Charismatic stage presence Good […]
Urinary relief hatch for waders (new patent)
One of the problems with waterproof waders and foul weather gear is that they tend to be waterproof in both directions. A newly patented invention from Robert A. Stevenson and Wendy L. Stevenson of Canyon Country, California finds a way through this logical quandary with a specially developed hatch. The invention can be described (in […]