Improbable stuff awaits you, if you will be in Phoenix, Arizona this Friday night:
AAAS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Hyatt Regency Phoenix Hotel, in the Regency Ballroom — Improbable Research Show, with Marc Abrahams (founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes) and:
- Julie Mennella (2025 Ig Nobel Pediatrics Prize winner, for studying what a nursing baby experiences when the baby’s mother eats garlic)
- Paul Bosland (1999 Ig Nobel Biology Prize winner, for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper)
- Improbable Dramatic Readings (read aloud by probably dramatic readers) of very brief extracts from surprising research studies
- Bananas
February 13 , 2026, Friday, 7:00 pm
This Improbable Research show is open free to the public.

