Jerry Andrus’s head-turning dragon, though made from mere cut-and-folded paper, is truly a head-turner. It was designed in honor of Martin Gardner. You can download a PDF version, and cut and fold yourself an object that will startle visitors.
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Further puzzling solutions
The "Puzzling Solutions" column in the special Security Issue of the Annals of Improbable Research presents several more from our collection of puzzle solutions to which we have lost the puzzles.
Clearly, in Jeopardy
Investigator Carol Springs writes to clarify an item in the June issue of mini-AIR: One point that dozens of others have probably made by now, but just in case:>> "Ig Nobel Prizes" was a>> category on the June 1, 2005 >> broadcast of the television program>> "Jeopardy." Contestants were presented >> with the following answers:>> […]
Deus ex masochism
Investigator Amos Omondi writes to recommend an invention that never gets quite enough attention: UNITED STATES PATENT 6293874: "User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user’s buttocks"INVENTOR: Armstrong; Joe W. (Lenoir, Tennessee)ABSTRACT: An amusement apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user’s buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms […]