This Saturday, Jan 17th at 12:30pm, Improbable Research will hold a special session at Arisia – “New England’s largest science fiction and fantasy convention“. Brave volunteers will emote brief excerpts from published academic studies and patent documents. (Some of those studies and patents won Ig Nobel Prizes). The people reading these studies were nominated (and commented on) by attendees of […]
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Luxuriant Hair Club for Scientists™ names 2015 Woman & Man of the Year
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announces its Woman and Man Of The Year for 2015. The two terrifically-tressed scientists are, respectively, an American researcher who studies microbes that live in paper wasp bodies and nests, and a British researcher who plumbs the mysteries of critical illnesses. Here is thrilling detail about each of them. Woman of the […]
The year 2014 in hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Clubs for Scientists — LFHCfS)
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists has a new member gallery with details on all the new members inducted during the year 2014. The 2014 Membership Gallery covers all 3 of the (conjoined triplet) hair clubs: The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists, and the Luxuriant Facial Hair Club […]
Arisia: Nominate a reader for our Jan. 17th event
Calling all Arisia fen: Improbable Research will return to Arisia on January 17, 2015 and we’re asking the fen to help us find the best people to present some of our research papers. What qualities should the person you nominate have to be a reader at this event? Charismatic stage presence A good speaking voice […]
24/7 Lectures get their own webpage
Since 2001, the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony has included the 24/7 Lectures, in which some of the world’s top thinkers each explained a concept in two ways: First, a complete, technical description in 24 seconds, and then, a clear summary that anyone can understand in 7 words. Now all the 24/7 Lectures are collected, together in one place. You […]
Announcing the Ig Nobel free-tickets-to-the-2015-ceremony winner
Earlier this year we announced that people who purchased a subscription to the Annals of Improbable Research between Sept 18 and Sept 30 would be entered in a drawing for 2 free tickets to next year’s (2015) Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. To ensure a fair drawing, we separated the duties of numbering the eligible entries and […]
2014 Ig Nobel Prize Winners added to sortable database
The sortable database of Ig Nobel Prize Winners now includes data from all 24 years of prizes, including the recently announced 2014 prizes. The information lives on the Silk data publishing platform, and helped us determine that we have awarded Ig Nobel Prizes in exactly 50 categories. It also helped University Ranking Watch compare the […]
Win 2 Tickets to the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony?
Buy or renew a subscription to our magazine, The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) by September 30th, and use the special code word when you do, and you will be entered in a drawing for 2 free tickets to the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony! What’s the code word? It’s the theme of this year’s […]
Sortable database of Ig Nobel Prize Winners
There’s now an elegant, sortable database of Ig Nobel Prize Winners. It’s made in Silk – a platform for visualizing and sharing data. Silk says that it is: …a way to search through and filter all the Ig Nobel prizes and find strange correlations (but not necessarily causations) such as: “prize winners that contain the words ‘beer’ […]
3 Unexpected By-Products of (both real and fake) Luwak Coffee
The cost and caché of “the world’s most expensive coffee” — kopi luwak — has created at least three related industries. BACKGROUND: Long-time readers might recall that Kopi Luwak is made from coffee beans that have been partially digested by the Asian Palm-Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus); an animal that cherry picks only certain fruits (some say, […]