Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Venture capitalists use (mostly) other people’s money to make bets on the future, and/or to collect chunks of that money as payment to themselves for collecting the money and gambling some of it. This new paper looks back over how those bets about the future seem to compare with making random guesses: “Do Venture Capitalists […]
The July 2026 issue of mini-AIR, our teeny tiny free little e-newsletter of overflow detritus that did not fit in the magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), has just gone out. The issue contains (among other stuff) info about research on the carrying capacity of heads. It includes a quick look at the study “Why do […]
“Ig Nobel Laureates Patricia Yang and Park Seung-min Deliver First Joint Public Talk in Korea on Excrement Research” says the headline of a July 23 report by DongA Science. The report goes on to explain: “Dong-A Science marks its 40th anniversary with a July 25 event at Seoul National University featuring Ig Nobel Prize–winning studies […]
Some people worry about pedagogical density. Some of them write about that worry, so that others can read about it. A new addition to all this is the study: “Introducing pedagogical mediation to make theory-dense linguistics research available for classroom intervention,” Eloy Romero Muñoz and Dilin Liu, Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, vol. 5, no. […]