I (Marc) have begun a Substack to publish a mix of (1) new stuff and (2) other stuff that’s new to most people.
It’s called “Marc’s Improbable Stuff“.
Subscribe at: https://improbablestuff.substack.com/
What You Will Find There
Many of the things there will be related to the kind of stuff that’s in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research) — but that seem to clamor for a different setting.
Most items are non-fiction about our actual universe. Some other items are fiction, and are marked as being fiction, mostly. The very first item is something that only a few, very long-time readers may remember: “Feline Reactions to Bearded Men“, which I wrote under a team of pen names in the early 1990’s.
The new stuff will include several distinct series of items.
One series presents fictional mystery stories (from the unpublished book Tiny Tomes of Terror) that turn on real scientific research papers (some of which won Ig Nobel Prizes).
Another series, from the unpublished and ever-growing book Techniques of Successful Con Men, offers non-fictional, cheery-helpful-info tiny nuggets that anyone can use to make sense of what is happening now (and always) in the daily news.
Another series dips into the somewhat-suppressed, still unpublished book Improbable Sex (which sprouted from the column of that name in the magazine).
And there will be many other kinds of things, including appreciations of Ig Nobel Prize winners, of Ig Nobel-winning research, and of other researchers and research that are fully as surprising.
Also: favorite items from the now-forgotten columns that I wrote, way back when, in other magazines and newspapers.
All of this stuff is designed to make people LAUGH, then THINK. Please give it a look!