This being (more or less, depending on your school) the start of a new school year, it’s time to glance, again, at the AIR teachers’ guide. This guide also appears in each and every issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Joyce, Kafka, and modern technology
Investigator Sally Shelton writes: There is now an animated version of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Between this and the children’s book version (which I do have) of Kafka’s "Metamorphosis," it’s all unbelievable.
Fledermausmensch kibitzer
Investigator Wolf Roder complains in reference to the search for the one, true Fledermausmensch: You wrote that "The word ‘batman’ translates into German as ‘Fledermausmensch.’" Batman surely is, and always has been, a man (male of the human species). Thus "batman" would translate as "Fledermausmann" (with two n, please). Now that you have batman translated, […]
Sandridge’s hair makes the cut
Jon Sandridge, of lizard push-up fame, has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS).