The name Troy shall forever (and/or a day) be associated with suits of armor designed to let a human being commune with a large, fierce animal. TROY AND GRIZZLY BEARS are the joint themes of the suit designed, built, and personally tested by Troy Hurtubise (for which he won the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize for […]
Category: Improbable Investigators
People who do research that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Roy receives his Nobel Prize – LIVE WEBCAST
Today — Saturday, December 10, 2005 — watch Roy Glauber and the other new Nobel Laureates receive their prizes. Roy won his Nobel Prize in the field of physics. As noted earlier, one of Roy’s most minor accomplishments (unrelated to what is happening today, needless to say) was his stylish sweeping of paper airplanes from […]
A Theory of Pretty Much Everything.
David Robert Leffler‘s "A VEDIC APPROACH TO MILITARY DEFENSE: Reducing Collective Stress Through The Field Effects of Consciousness" is what might be termed a Theory of Pretty Much Everything. Dr. Leffler is an impressively prolific writer.
Mr. Mousetrap
"Once again, someone has build a better mousetrap, and obtained a patent (U.S. # 6,739,086) for it, this coming on the heels of his earlier (U.S. #5720126) mousetrap patent. This time the someone is Keith Lamb of Gruver, Texas. Details — including an engineering diagram and a photograph of the device, are reported by the […]