mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
November 2020, issue number 2021-11. ISSN 1076-500X.
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Research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
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01 TABLE OF CONTENTS
02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: Special CHILDREN Issue
03 Salami on a Sandwich Panel
04 Special Radio Edition of this Year's Ig Nobel Ceremony
05 Limerick Challenge: Salami on Cannabis in Health Baskets
06 Laurel and Hardy Movie Eye-Poking Winner
07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Noisy Tempura, Duck Honor, Tennis-Yack
08 Salami on Acha Bread
20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS
30 — Subscribe to the Actual Magazine! (*)
31 — How to start or stop receiving this little newsletter (*)
32 — Contact Info (*)
33 — Standard Gobbledegook (*)
Items marked (*) are reprinted in every issue.
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02 IN THE MAGAZINE ITSELF: Special CHILDREN Issue
What you are reading at the moment (mini-AIR)
is overflow detritus from
the magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
The special CHILDREN issue (vol. 27, no. 5) of the magazine will be coming out to play any day now, wandering its way to subscribers:
Some of the children-centric articles:
Pre-Teen Wolf
Big-Toe Curling
Saliva, Snot, and Sugar
Unusual Children
Children and Walking and Toes
What Children Dislike or Like
Children Chewing
The magazine issue after that—this year's special IG NOBEL issue—is in prep.
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03 Salami on a Sandwich Panel
This month's maybe-random research item:
"A New Nonlinear Model for Studying a Sandwich Panel with Thin Composite Faces and Elastic–Plastic Core," M. Rezaeifard, S. Jedari Salami, M. Botshekanan Dehkordi, and M. Sadighi, Thin-Walled Structures, vol. 107, 2016, pp. 119-137.
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263823116303421>
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04 Special Radio Edition of this Year's Ig Nobel Ceremony
In a now 30-year-long tradition, a specially edited version of the year's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be broadcast in the USA, on the Science Friday" radio program, on public radio, on the day after Thanksgiving.
This year, that's: Friday, November 26, 2021.
This year, it includes a discussion between SciFri founder/host Ira Flatow and Ig Nobel ceremony founder/emcee Marc Abrahams.
RADIO: See the Science Friday web site for broadcast times.
PLEASE NOTE: In most (but not all) cities, Science Friday is a two-hour-long program. In those cities, the Ig Nobel ceremony will be in the SECOND hour of the two-hour program.
INTERNET: You can listen to it on the Internet, via the Science Friday web site:
<https://www.sciencefriday.com/>
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05 Limerick Challenge: Salami on Cannabis in Health Baskets
This month's RESEARCH LIMERICK challenge — Devise a pleasing limerick that encapsulates this study:
"It is Our Turn to get Cannabis High: Put Cannabinoids in Food and Health Baskets," Federico Martinelli Salami, Antonio Giovino, Ava Bachari, Neda Arad, and Nitin Mantri, Molecules, vol. 25, no. 18, 2020, 4036.
<https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/18/4036/pdf>
The authors elaborate: "nobody can ignore the use of cannabinoids as promising tonic, analgesic, antipyretic, antiemetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-epileptic, anticancer agents, which are effective for pain relief, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, nausea and vomiting, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular disorders, and appetite stimulation"
Submit your perfectly formed, delightfully enlightening limerick to:
SALAMI-ON-CANNABIS LIMERICK COMPETITION
c/o <MARC aaattt IMPROBABLE dddooottt COM>
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06 Laurel and Hardy Movie Eye-Poking Winner
The judges have chosen a winner in last month's Competition, which asked for a limerick to explain this study:
"Eye Trauma in Laurel and Hardy Movies – Another Nice Mess," Lara D.A. Zegers and Richard H.C. Zegers, Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 61, no. 4, 2016, pp. 207-212. <https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0036933016680160>
Winning limericist ELVA SIMUNDSSON writes:
So what's the next trick they would pick,
A poke in the eye with a stick?
From Laurel to Hardy,
They’d never be tardy
With dangerous comedy schtick.
This month's take from our LIMERICK LAUREATE, MARTIN EIGER:
Watching ninety-two movies to find
That Hardy and others don't mind
A jab or a poke
In the eye? What a joke!
There are much better ways to go blind.
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07 MORE IMPROBABLE: Noisy Tempura, Duck Honor, Tennis-Yack
Recent improbable research bits you may have missed...
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* Listen to Your Tempura
* The Duck Guy Gets Yet Another Honor
* Dog-Human Tennis-Ball-Based Internet Communicator
*…and much more
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08 Salami on Acha Bread
"Effect of Irish Potato Starch, Yeast and Sprouted Soybean Flour on the Quality of Acha Bread," Victoria Adaora Jideani, Rosemary Aina Salami, and Israel Afam Jideani, British Food Journal, vol. 110, no. 3, 2008.
<https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/00070700810858682/full/html>
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20 SOME IMPROBABLE EVENTS
Ig Nobel Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan Sep 9-Nov 3, 2021
2021 Ig Informal Lectures (online) Sep/Oct/Nov 2021
Arisia, Boston, MA, USA Jan 14, 2022
Improbable Conversation (online) Jan 20, 2022
Ig Nobel Euro (& Brexitannia) Tour Mar/Apr 2022
32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Sep 2022
[All live events in 2021-2 are subject to pandemical constraints and adventures.]
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<http://www.improbable.com/improbable-research-shows/complete-schedule/>
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33 — Standard Gobbledegook (*)
EDITOR: Marc Abrahams
CO-CONSPIRATORS: Kees Moeliker, Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Gary Dryfoos, Nan Swift, Stephen Drew
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