mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
May 2014, issue number 2013-05. ISSN 1076-500X.
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The monthly mini update/alert from Improbable Research
Archive at <http://improbable.com/airchives/miniair>
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2013-05-01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
2013-05-02 Imminent Events: Dead Duck Day / ESOF / Ig Nobel Tickets
2013-05-03 In the Magazine: Cloning & Evolution Issue
2013-05-04 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Bang's Blutzucker
2013-05-05 The BG Bang Limerick Competition
2013-05-06 Green: Thumb Injury Poet
2013-05-07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Squirrel + Shotgun + Butt / Dog + Graphene
2013-05-08 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Bang's Cuspidor
2013-05-09 Improbable Research Events
2013-05-10 — How to Get the Magazine (*)
2013-05-11 — Our Address (*)
2013-05-12 — Please Forward/Post This Issue! (*)
2013-05-13 — How to start or stop receiving this newsletter (*)
Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.
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2013-05-02 Imminent Events: Dead Duck Day / ESOF / Ig Nobel Tickets
á Dead Duck Day, Rotterdam, The Netherlands — Jun 5
á ESOF, Copenhagen, Denmark — Jun 24 & 24
á Ig Nobel Ceremony TICKETS GO ON SALE — Jul 8
Full events schedule at <http://goo.gl/tzwJt>
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2013-05-03 In the Magazine: Cloning & Evolution Issue
The special Cloning & Evolution issue (vol. 20, no. 2) of the Annals of Improbable Research now exists, corporeally and digitally: <http://goo.gl/0RdEvV>. Three of its articles are online:
á "Evolution of Complexes from LEGOª Bricks in a Washing Machine" <http://goo.gl/aJXr5S>
á "Genetic Deterioration over Nine Generations of Cloned Gingerbread Men" <http://goo.gl/ZEuqIL>
á "Viagra Induces Fractal Growth in Mushrooms in Switzerland" <http://goo.gl/n7tMRG>
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2013-05-04 RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Bang's Blutzucker
This month's research spotlights one of Bang's most sugary works:
"Blutzucker," Ivar Bang, Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry, vol. 52, no. 7, 1913, pp. 521-523. <http://goo.gl/hwa04J>
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2013-05-05 The BG Bang Limerick Competition
Bang and the human nose inspire this month's limerick competition. To enter, compose an original limerick that illuminates the nature of this ancient study:
"The Mucous Glands of the Developing Human Nose," B.G. Bang, Cells Tissues Organs, vol. 59, no. 4, 1964, pp. 297-314. <http://goo.gl/9aSdhH>
Submit your perfectly formed limerick to:
BG BANG LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o <marca AT improbable.com>
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2013-05-06 Green: Thumb Injury Poet
The judges have chosen a winner for last month's Green: Thumb Injury Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor this study:
"The Danger in a Handshake — An Unusual Case of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Rupture," Ramita Dey and A.D Green, Injury, vol. 34, no. 7, July 2003, pp. 535–536. <http://goo.gl/w9u7wI >
The winner is INVESTIGATOR JODY GILDER, who writes:
Shake the hand of a Scottish gamekeeper
And his thumb may cause you to probe deeper.
Then a man who kills rabbit
Rips his ulnar by habit.
Fitting payback to a bunny grim reaper.
And here are two alternate offerings from LIMERICK LAUREATE MARTIN EIGER:
Although it is favored by some,
They're neglecting what danger may come.
A handshake to greet
The people you meet
Can tear ligaments found in your thumb.
It's a little bit kinky, it's true.
I like painful sensations, I do.
To be tied up and whipped
Has become nondescript.
What I want is a handshake with you.
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2013-05-07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Squirrel + Shotgun + Butt / Dog + Graphene
Recent improbable bits you maybe missed:
IMPROBABLE BLOG:
á "Self-inflicted: Squirrel Tissue Embedded with Birdshot in His Butt <http://goo.gl/PGowRh>
á "The Introductory Physics of Being Pissed Off" <http://goo.gl/9vYKgP>
á "A Stand-up Effect on Dogs of Listening to Graphene Earphones" <http://goo.gl/aUCsqu>
...and MORE, MORe, MOre, More, more at <http://improbable.com>
LFHCfS (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists) new members:
á Greg Jensen
á Karl O'Dwyer
á Will Bennett
Admire them at <http://goo.gl/8AZawf>
Other LFHCfS doings:
á Official Harvard interview with Steven Pinker and his hair <http://goo.gl/KbSVki>
á The Danish magazine Dansk Magisterbladet's celebration of the LFCHfS <http://goo.gl/REuJYT>
Newspaper column:
á First attempts to model bipolar patients as harmonic oscillators <http://goo.gl/8ksybN>
twitter: @ImprobResearch, @MarcAbrahams, #IgNobel
facebook: <http://www.facebook.com/improbableresearch>
books: <http://goo.gl/rHMb3t>
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2013-05-08 MAY WE RECOMMEND: Bang's Cuspidor
"Cuspidor," U.S. Patent 1,210,397, issued to Herman H. Bang, on January 2, 1917. <http://goo.gl/xwdvgQ>
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2013-05-09 Improbable Research Events
For details and additional events, see
<http://improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/complete-schedule>
Dead Duck Day, Rotterdam, The Netherlands — Jun 5
ESOF, Copenhagen, Denmark — Jun 22 & 24, 2014
Ig Nobel TICKETS go on sale — Jul 8, 2014
Readercon, MA, USA — Jul 10, 2014
NEW BOOK — Publication day USA — Aug 12, 2014
Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony — Sep 18, 2014
Ig Informal Lectures — Sep 20, 2014
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2013-05-10 — How to Get the Magazine (*)
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