I’m either (1) gratified that someone’s decided to test their pet Artificial Intelligence thingamabob by sending a message to us, or (2) disappointed that there are apparently humans who fail the Turing Test. We received the following unsigned message: Dear Improbable Research, Can you take back or un issue an “Ig Noble” Prize? More importantly, […]
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Improbable Research Collection #115
Here’s the new episode — #115, “Toad toe tapping” — of the Improbable Research TV series. As the title implies but only half reveals, it concerns the curious case of the cane toad toe tappers. To see it, click on the image at right, and you will be whisked to YouTube (where you can subscribe, […]
Improbable Research blog a finalist for 2008 Best Science Blog
We are proud (and surprised!) that we’ve been named a finalist—for Best Science Blog—in the 2008 Weblog Awards (“the world’s largest blog competition” say the organizers). Thanks to the many investigators who send us tips and detritus, and special thanks to whoever nominated us Voting is open now and will be so until Monday, January […]
Improbable Research Collection #114
Here’s episode 114 (“Cola quibbles, coiffed chemists”) of the Improbable Research TV series, featuring further anti-seminal research from 2008 Ig Nobel medicine prize winner Dr. Deborah J. Anderson (also seen in Collection #113) and three special members of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). To see it, click on the image at right, […]