Did Dr. Nudge often nudge? You will have to decide for yourself whether Dr. Nudge nudged often or seldom or not at all. Perhaps begin by looking up some of Dr. Nudge’s works. Start, if you like, with the study “Flowering of Dichondra in response to temperature and daylength,” V.B. Youngner, F.J. Nudge, and S. […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
A nice new, short video portrait of Dr. Nakamats
Great Big Story made this documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats. The producers introduce it by saying: “His best thinking happens during the third movement of Beethoven’s Fifth, in a gold-plated room and when he’s mere moments from death. He writes his name “NakaMats,” but that’s Dr. Nakamatsu to you. He’s dapper, 91 […]
John Senders has driven off into eternity
Sad news. John Senders has taken his last gleeful spin through the universe. He died this week, just a few days shy of his 99th birthday. John, a clever, funny, kind scientist who was also an ace showman with an astoundingly resonant voice, won the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize for public safety, for conducting a series of […]
What Does Guy Standing Stand For, and Where?
Professor Guy Standing stands and sits at SOAS University of London, where he develops studies in and for the Department of Development Studies. Here is a photo of Guy Standing standing: