Odd Showers, a book published in 1870 in London, is explicitly [the book itself says] “intended chiefly for young persons.” Non-young persons are not explicitly prohibited from reading the book.
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
First He Won an Ig Nobel Prize, Then He Won a Trumpler Award
Jesse Han is becoming good at winning unusual awards. In 2017 he traveled to Harvard University, to receive the 2017 Ig Nobel Fluid Dynamics Prize, for studying the dynamics of liquid-sloshing, to learn what happens when a person walks backwards while carrying a cup of coffee. [His research on that was published in study called […]
The 2026 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony
TODAY, Thursday, Sept 3, at 7 pm (CEST): The 36th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Ten new prizes will be awarded for things that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The webcast will be available here and on our Youtube channel: The 2026 ceremony will be also webcast in a separate stream in Japanese (thanks to NIKONIKO/Dwango).
Without Oddball Science, The World Would Be Too Strange
Almost all scientific discoveries come — directly or indirectly — from things that people at first thought to be strange, weird, crazy, stupid, and/or just plain wrong. This essay looks at a few of the zillions of examples: “Oddball Science: Why Studies of Unusual Evolutionary Phenomena Are Crucial,” Patricia L.R. Brennan, Duncan J. Irschick, Norman […]