Here’s another look back at Project AIRhead 2000 (announced in June 1994). The project celebrated every item, project or concept that had the number 2000 tacked onto its name in giddy anticipation of the coming millennium: Jean Pierre Lapine Cybergraph 2000, a $3000 carbon fiber fountain pen.
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The psychology of wonder pants
Investigator Thomas Manton sends this image with a note saying: My father, then a research psychologist in Cincinnati, bought several of these for his lab in the early 1970s. He never published the results of his experiments. He having been dead many years now, and I having been a rather incurious child in the 1970s, […]
The Oxfamy of poo
Investigator Stanley Eigen recommends this gift of cattle manure, offered by Oxfam Australia for a mere fifteen dollars (AUS). The purveyor coos: It’s surprising how many people turn their nose up at the thought of poo as a present. If they only knew that a package of poo can help families in Sri Lanka get […]
Ig winners lauded for Ideas-of-the-Year
Two of this year’s crop of Ig Nobel Prize winners are among the “noteworthy notions of 2009” celebrated in the New York Times Magazine‘s “Year in Ideas” feature. Here’s how The Times describes them: Cows With Names Make More Milk “The naming,” says Catherine Douglas, the Newcastle University animal behaviorist behind the research, “reflects the […]