Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. […]
The special FORCES issue (volume 32, number 3, May/June 2026) of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research has gone go out to subscribers. Even if you are not a subscriber you can read several of its articles online free, for looks at many aspects of digestion and/or indigestion: StressSlipping and Slapping* If a Falling Bullet* […]
When a person is hungry, what is a too-tempting food? This study, in addition to reporting a medical incident, begins to try to answer that question: “Each Worm to His Taste: Some Prefer to Eat Nettles – A Giant Gastric Phytobezoar,” Mahir Gachabayov, Abakar Abdullaev, Petr Mityushin, and Timur Gilyazov, Clinical Case Reports, vol. 4, […]
TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to attend the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony went on sale 12 May, 2026. The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, in early September. NOTE: Learn why the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Is Moving to Europe (after 35 years in the USA). The logo, below, by […]