The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (formerly and lovingly known as the Centers for Disease Control) have/has issued a statistics-based safety reminder for New Year’s Eve celebrants. The full report appears in the December 24, 2004 issue of MMWR. Here are some highlights: New Year’s Eve Injuries Caused by Celebratory Gunfire — Puerto Rico, […]
About: Marc Abrahams
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Boys Will Be Boys
"Boys Will Be Boys." The column of that name runs in every issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. The column from the November-December issue is on our web site, as well as in the magazine.
Test a Parrot
The report "Testing a Language-Using Parrot for Telepathy," by Rupert Sheldrake and Aim?e Morgana, includes these provocatively calming words of confident caution: [T]hese experiments provide compelling evidence of interspecies telepathy. This phenomenon is currently unexplained within the dominant scientific model. (Thanks to investigator Audrey Devine-Eller for bringing this to our attention.)
Do you have restless legs?
Do you truly have restless legs? Consider, then, the work of the Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation.
Facing Santa
Pediatric reactions to Santa Claus are photo-documented in a new research project. Based in South Florida, the project would seem to confirm the disturbing findings reported last year (and subsequently in more detail) by 2003 Ig Nobel Literature Prize winner John Trinkaus.
Best of the Bad
Once again, thanks to Popular Science magazine, there is a list of the worst jobs in science.
More About Mastache
There’s much info available about Professor Jesus Mastache Roman, the scholar who was the unfortunate posthumous victim of a typographical error that converted him into the memorably named Jesus Mustache Roman. Professor Mastache’s son, Alberto Mastache, has compiled a good deal of biographical and other knowledge about Professor Mastache. (Thanks to Alberto Mastache for alerting […]
Chinese edition of Ig book
The Chinese edition of the book The Ig Nobel Prizes is now out.
Banned in Britain
Norman Hutchins has been banned from every hospital, according to a report by the BBC, and reports elsewhere, including the pervert-reportage-specializing Mirror.
The Poet Ramel Loves Insects
Gordon Ramel loves insects. He has written poetry, and he is trying to educate a sometimes unappreciative world. Here is an educational effort that appeared recently on the ENTOMO-L discussion list. Gordon Ramel responded to this inquiry: FROM: Erin Johnson I’m working on a television series about entertaining ‘bugs’ (I use the term ‘bugs’ in […]