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 […]
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Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ reveals the identity of its 2017 Woman of the Year
TODAY IN OSLO: In front of an audience at the University of Oslo (UiO), The Luxuriant Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announced its 2017 Woman of The Year – Dr. Anneleen Kool. Dr. Kool was in attendance to discuss her research on the botanical history of the Vikings and to display her luxuriant flowing […]
Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ announces when it will announce it’s 2017 Woman & Man of the Year
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announced its 2017 Man Of The Year back in January. Now it proudly announces WHEN it will announce the 2017 Woman of the Year. 2017 MAN of The Year – an Experimental Physicist at Case Western Reserve University, researching cosmic rays – was announced on Friday, […]
Seattle NerdNite talk on the Ig Nobel Prize, March 21st
If you will be in Seattle on March 21st then head to the High Dive bar in Fremont to hear Ig Nobel Co-Producer David Kessler give a NerdNite talk: “Onstage & Backstage at The Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony”. David will try to describe The Ig Nobel Prize and also some of the interesting people and […]
2016 in Hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™)
Here at close of 2016 The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS), and it’s sibling clubs, have collected the year’s new members into its 2016 Members Gallery. Individual members are first announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog’s Hair Club section (with one exception this year**), and then collected […]
About our “Ig Glorious” ticket holders
The audiences who come to Sanders Theater to watch the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony include scientists, science enthusiasts, and people who have no connection to science. Some of them come individually, some of them come in groups (self-organized Official Audience Delegations). And then there are the very special “Ig Glorious” ticket holders. “Ig Glorious” tickets are a way […]
Algorithm Predicts Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump to become the 45th President of the United States
by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy July 28, 2016 Now that both major U.S. political parties have announced their nominees for president and vice president and the nominees have accepted these nominations, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm (Debowy and Schulman 2003) can be used to predict the results of the upcoming […]
Luxuriant Hair Club for Scientists™ names 2016 Woman & Man of the Year
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announces its Woman and Man Of The Year for 2016. The two scientists are, respectively, a Danish researcher who studies polymer micro and nano engineering, and a Scottish researcher for NASA who studies airborne particles in earth’s atmosphere. Here is thrilling detail about each of them. […]
2015 in Hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™)
Good news for scientists and people who appreciate hair – The 2015 Members Gallery of the Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs has been released. Individual members are announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog (Hair Club section), and as each year closes they are […]
Arisia: Nominate a reader for our Jan. 15th event
Calling all Arisia fen: Improbable Research will return to Arisia on Friday, January 15, 2016 and we’re asking the fen to help us find the best people to present some of our research papers. (There are a limited number of these reader positions) What qualities should the person you nominate have to be a reader […]