Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Cowbirds fascinate cowbird watchers and listeners in many ways. This 2012 study focuses on some of those ways in some of those cowbirds: “Effects of Habitat and Urbanization on the Active Space of Brown-Headed Cowbird Song,” Megan D. Gall, Kelly L. Ronald, Eric S. Bestrom, and Jeffrey R. Lucas, The Journal of the Acoustical Society […]
Please join us, if you will (and don’t join us, if you won’t) for these upcoming events in Berlin, Germany: FRIDAY, November 6, 2026: Falling Walls Science Summit SUNDAY, November 8, 2026: Berlin Science Week — Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium. TICKETS TICKETS TICKETS to the Science Week […]
Saul Newman‘s book, titled Morbid, is now loosed upon the world of people who want to read books that make people laugh, then really think. Published by MIT Press, it’s based on and extends the research that won Newman an Ig Nobel Prize. The 2024 Ig Nobel Demography Prize was awarded to Saul Justin Newman, […]
Ambition and words shine abundantly in The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form . The limericks are numerous, and of wide-ranging quality. The dictionary’s proprietors say: “Our primary goal in compiling this dictionary is to write at least one limerick for each meaning of each and every word in the English language. Our best limericks […]